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On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:54:01AM -0400, Ken Giusti wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Apologies for the cross-post: this should be of interest to both infra
> and olso.messaging developers.
> 
> The blueprint [0] that adds support for version 1.0 of the AMQP messaging
> protocol is blocked due to CI test failures [1]. These failures are due
> to a new package dependency this blueprint adds to oslo.messaging.
> 
> The AMQP 1.0 functionality is provided by the Apache Qpid's Proton
> AMQP 1.0 toolkit.  The blueprint uses the Python bindings for this
> toolkit, which are available on Pypi.  These bindings, however, include
> a C extension that depends on the Proton toolkit development libraries
> in order to build and install.  The lack of this toolkit is the cause
> of the blueprint's current CI failures.
> 
> This toolkit is written in C, and thus requires platform-specific
> libraries.
> 
> Now here's the problem: packages for Proton are not included by
> default in most distro's base repositories (yet).  The Apache Qpid
> team has provided packages for EPEL, and has a PPA available for
> Ubuntu.  Packages for Debian are also being proposed.
> 
> I'm proposing this patch to openstack-infra/config to address the
> dependency problem [2].  It adds the proton toolkit packages to the
> common slave configuration.  Does this make sense?  Are there any
> better alternatives?

For other cases where we need more native packages, we tyically
use devstack to ensure they are installed. This is preferrable
since it works for ordinary developers as well as the CI system.

Regards,
Daniel
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