[openstack-dev] [ALL] Removing the tox==1.6.1 pin

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jul 30 13:30:00 UTC 2014



On 7/30/2014 2:27 AM, Michele Paolino wrote:
> On 30/07/2014 07:53, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 7/25/2014 2:38 PM, Clark Boylan wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The recent release of tox 1.7.2 has fixed the {posargs} interpolation
>>> issues we had with newer tox which forced us to be pinned to tox==1.6.1.
>>> Before we can remove the pin and start telling people to use latest tox
>>> we need to address a new default behavior in tox.
>>>
>>> New tox sets a random PYTHONHASHSEED value by default. Arguably this is
>>> a good thing as it forces you to write code that handles unknown hash
>>> seeds, but unfortunately many projects' unittests don't currently deal
>>> with this very well. A work around is to hard set a PYTHONHASHSEED of 0
>>> in tox.ini files. I have begun to propose these changes to the projects
>>> that I have tested and found to not handle random seeds. It would be
>>> great if we could get these reviewed and merged so that infra can update
>>> the version of tox used on our side.
>>>
>>> I probably won't be able to test every single project and propose fixes
>>> with backports to stable branches for everything. It would be a massive
>>> help if individual projects tested and proposed fixes as necessary too
>>> (these changes will need to be backported to stable branches). You can
>>> test by running `tox -epy27` in your project with tox version 1.7.2. If
>>> that fails add PYTHONHASHSEED=0 as in
>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/109700/ and rerun `tox -epy27` to
>>> confirm that succeeds.
>>>
>>> This will get us over the immediate hump of the tox upgrade, but we
>>> should also start work to make our tests run with random hashes. This
>>> shouldn't be too hard to do as it will be a self gating change once
>>> infra is able to update the version of tox used in the gate. Most of the
>>> issues appear related to dict entry ordering. I have gone ahead and
>>> created https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+bug/1348818 to track this
>>> work.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Clark
>>>
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>>
>> Is this in any way related to the fact that tox is unable to
>> find/install the oslo alpha packages for me in nova right now (config,
>> messaging, rootwrap) after I rebased on master?  I had to go into
>> requirements.txt and remove the min versions on the alpha versions to
>> get tox to install dependencies for nova unit tests. I'm running with
>> tox 1.6.1 but not sure if that would be related anyhow.
>
> Problem confirmed from my side. The error is:
> Downloading/unpacking oslo.config>=1.4.0.0a3 (from -r
> /media/repos/nova/requirements.txt (line 34))
>    Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement
> oslo.config>=1.4.0.0a3 (from -r /media/repos/nova/requirements.txt (line
> 34)) (from versions: 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0)
>

It looks like you have to use the --pre option with pip install to get 
pre-release packages, but then why isn't that in every project's tox.ini 
that is using these alpha oslo packages?

-- 

Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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