<div dir="ltr">I'd imagine the use of a Software Collection that includes a newer python for the OpenStack packages, or RHOSP, being purpose built for OpenStack, will take the plunge and upgrade the system python version.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- jlk</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Tim Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch" target="_blank">Tim.Bell@cern.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I¹m not seeing an easy solution other than to migrate to v7 in the longer<br>
termŠ we¹ve worked with RDO to get the packages back ported for Juno for<br>
v6 but with python pre-reqs this is going to get more and more difficult.<br>
It is one of those regular scenarios we encounter where neither staying<br>
still or moving forward are particularly attractive.<br>
<br>
It makes me wonder how RHOSP will be supporting these environments (or is<br>
the commitment to keep an OpenStack release working for a period of time<br>
rather than guaranteeing that you do not need to upgrade the OS ?)Š<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Tim<br>
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On 5/15/15, 12:04 PM, "Daniel P. Berrange" <<a href="mailto:berrange@redhat.com">berrange@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
>On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 06:25:48AM +0000, Tim Bell wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> What are the benefits of upping the minimum libvirt ?<br>
>><br>
>> We've got 3,200 hypervisors still running v6 with a plan to<br>
>> gradually migrate to 7 but this does take some time. We'll<br>
>> see with RDO this week as to how/if we can get something<br>
>> going with SCL on v6.<br>
><br>
>Tim, if you can't get Python 2.7 from SCL working acceptably,<br>
>what would be your fallback approach ? Would you try to patch<br>
>Nova to work on Python 2.6 again, or would you simply delay<br>
>updating Nova until you have v7 hosts to run on ?<br>
><br>
>Likewise if we were to decide to drop support for libvrt in<br>
>v6 from Nova, how would you imagine dealing with that ? Would<br>
>you just re-add the compat code we removed from Nova to make<br>
>it work with old libvirt again ?<br>
><br>
>Regards,<br>
>Daniel<br>
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