[openstack-dev] [stable][requirements] External dependency caps introduced in 499db6b

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Tue Feb 24 15:00:23 UTC 2015



On Mon, Feb 23, 2015, at 06:31 PM, Joe Gordon wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Joe Gordon wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
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> > > > On 02/20/2015 07:16 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> > > > > Sean Dague wrote:
> > > > >> On 02/20/2015 12:26 AM, Adam Gandelman wrote:
> > > > >>> Its more than just the naming.  In the original proposal,
> > > > >>> requirements.txt is the compiled list of all pinned deps
> > > > >>> (direct and transitive), while
> > > > >>> requirements.in<http://requirements.in>  reflects what people
> > > > >>> will actually use.  Whatever is in requirements.txt affects the
> > > > >>> egg's requires.txt. Instead, we can keep requirements.txt
> > > > >>> unchanged and have it still be the canonical list of
> > > > >>> dependencies, while
> > > > >>> reqiurements.out/requirements.gate/requirements.whatever is an
> > > > >>> upstream utility we produce and use to keep things sane on our
> > > > >>> slaves.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Maybe all we need is:
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> * update the existing post-merge job on the requirements repo
> > > > >>> to produce a requirements.txt (as it does now) as well the
> > > > >>> compiled version.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> * modify devstack in some way with a toggle to have it process
> > > > >>> dependencies from the compiled version when necessary
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> I'm not sure how the second bit jives with the existing
> > > > >>> devstack installation code, specifically with the libraries
> > > > >>> from git-or-master but we can probably add something to warm
> > > > >>> the system with dependencies from the compiled version prior to
> > > > >>> calling pip/setup.py/etc <http://setup.py/etc>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> It sounds like you are suggesting we take the tool we use to
> > > > >> ensure that all of OpenStack is installable together in a unified
> > > > >> way, and change it's installation so that it doesn't do that any
> > > > >> more.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Which I'm fine with.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> But if we are doing that we should just whole hog give up on the
> > > > >> idea that OpenStack can be run all together in a single
> > > > >> environment, and just double down on the devstack venv work
> > > > >> instead.
> > > > >
> > > > > It'd be interesting to see what a distribution (canonical,
> > > > > redhat...) would think about this movement. I know yahoo! has been
> > > > > looking into it for similar reasons (but we are more flexibly then
> > > > > I think a packager such as canonical/redhat/debian/... would/culd
> > > > > be). With a move to venv's that seems like it would just offload
> > > > > the work to find the set of dependencies that work together (in a
> > > > > single-install) to packagers instead.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is that ok/desired at this point?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Honestly, I failed to track all the different proposals. Just saying
> > > > from packager perspective: we absolutely rely on requirements.txt not
> > > > being a list of hardcoded values from pip freeze, but present us a
> > > > reasonable freedom in choosing versions we want to run in packaged
> > > > products.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > in short the current proposal for stable branches is:
> > >
> > > keep requirements.txt as is, except maybe put some upper bounds on the
> > > requirements.
> > >
> > > Add requirements.gate to specify the *exact* versions we are gating
> > > against
> > > (this would be a full list including all transitive dependencies).
> >
> > The gate syncs requirements into projects before installing them. Would
> > we change the sync script for the gate to work from the
> > requirements.gate file, or keep it pulling from requirements.txt?
> >
> 
> We would only add requirements.gate for stable branches (because we don't
> want to cap/pin  things on master). So I think the answer is sync script
> should work for both.  I am not sure on the exact mechanics of how this
> would work. Whoever ends up driving this bit of work (I think Adam G),
> will
> have to sort out the details.

OK. I think it's probably worth a spec, then, so we can think it through
before starting work. Maybe in the cross-project specs repo, to avoid
having to create one just for requirements? Or we could modify the
README or something, but the specs repo seems more visible.

Doug

> 
> 
> > Doug
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > > That's why I asked before we should have caps and not pins.
> > > >
> > > > /Ihar
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