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On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com> wrote:

>  On 2014-02-05 09:05, Doug Hellmann wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 2014-01-08 12:14, Doug Hellmann wrote:
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>>
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>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On 2014-01-08 11:16, Sean Dague wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 01/08/2014 12:06 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, that's what made me start thinking oslo.sphinx should be called
>>>>> something else.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sean, how strongly do you feel about not installing oslo.sphinx in
>>>>> devstack? I see your point, I'm just looking for alternatives to the
>>>>> hassle of renaming oslo.sphinx.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Doing the git thing is definitely not the right thing. But I guess I got
>>>> lost somewhere along the way about what the actual problem is. Can
>>>> someone write that up concisely? With all the things that have been
>>>> tried/failed, why certain things fail, etc.
>>>
>>>  The problem seems to be when we pip install -e oslo.config on the
>>> system, then pip install oslo.sphinx in a venv.  oslo.config is unavailable
>>> in the venv, apparently because the namespace package for o.s causes the
>>> egg-link for o.c to be ignored.  Pretty much every other combination I've
>>> tried (regular pip install of both, or pip install -e of both, regardless
>>> of where they are) works fine, but there seem to be other issues with all
>>> of the other options we've explored so far.
>>>
>>> We can't remove the pip install -e of oslo.config because it has to be
>>> used for gating, and we can't pip install -e oslo.sphinx because it's not a
>>> runtime dep so it doesn't belong in the gate.  Changing the toplevel
>>> package for oslo.sphinx was also mentioned, but has obvious drawbacks too.
>>>
>>> I think that about covers what I know so far.
>>
>>  Here's a link dstufft provided to the pip bug tracking this problem:
>> https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3
>> Doug
>>
>>   This just bit me again trying to run unit tests against a fresh Nova
>> tree.    I don't think it's just me either - Matt Riedemann said he has
>> been disabling site-packages in tox.ini for local tox runs.  We really need
>> to do _something_ about this, even if it's just disabling site-packages by
>> default in tox.ini for the affected projects.  A different option would be
>> nice, but based on our previous discussion I'm not sure we're going to find
>> one.
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
>  Is the problem isolated to oslo.sphinx? That is, do we end up with any
> configurations where we have 2 oslo libraries installed in different modes
> (development and "regular") where one of those 2 libraries is not
> oslo.sphinx? Because if the issue is really just oslo.sphinx, we can rename
> that to move it out of the namespace package.
>
>
>   oslo.sphinx is the only one that has triggered this for me so far.  I
> think it's less likely to happen with the others because they tend to be
> runtime dependencies so they get installed in devstack, whereas oslo.sphinx
> doesn't because it's a build dep (AIUI anyway).
>

That's pretty much what I expected.

Can we get a volunteer to work on renaming oslo.sphinx?

Doug


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> Doug
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>>   -Ben
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