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On 06/10/2013 04:50 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
> We have a hole in our otherwise pretty robust dependency management :
> binary packages. At the moment, the most reliable way to get a dev
> environment working is to either copy from a wiki page like
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/DependsOnUbuntu, or to run devstack
> once :).
>
> This is something I've said before we should automate... I was
> starting to look at tempest in the weekend, and yet again running up
> the curve of 'what packages are needed for this specific project',
> when I hit my tolerance threshold and thus, rage-fueled-code.
>
> https://github.com/rbtcollins/bindep is a draft project which would
> allow capturing in machine readable form the dependencies needed for
> our CI environments, for developers, and for binary deployment. It
> *isn't* a replacement or wrapper for tools like dpkg and rpm : there
> are good tools for that already. What it would let us do is record
> within each project the dependencies the project actually has for each
> use case : no more patching devstack to educate it about new binary
> dependencies.
>
> I think this could live very happily as an oslo component, like pbr
> does. It provides a small CLI, and a Python library which can be used
> from things like pbr or CI scripts, if they want to layer on it.
>
> As a for-instance, this might be the other-requirements.txt for tempest:
> python-tox [test]
> python-dev
> libxslt1-dev
> libxml2-dev
> libmysqlclient-dev
> git [test]
> postgresql-server-dev-all
>
> The README.rst I've written is probably a better way to capture this -
> so - https://github.com/rbtcollins/bindep/blob/master/README.rst

Nice stuff, Robert. This will come in very handy indeed.

Best,
-jay