[openstack-dev] [depfreeze] Exception: limit psutil to <2.0.0

Clark Boylan clark.boylan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 20:04:12 UTC 2014


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Solly Ross <sross at redhat.com> wrote:
> What bug tracker should I file under?  I tried filing one under the openstack common infrastructure tracker,
> but was told that it wasn't the correct place to file such a bug.
>
> Best Regards,
> Solly Ross
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean Dague" <sean at dague.net>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 3:28:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [depfreeze] Exception: limit psutil to <2.0.0
>
> Where is the RC bug tracking this?
>
> If it's that bad, we really need to be explicit about this with a
> critical bug at this stage of the release.
>
>         -Sean
>
> On 03/26/2014 01:14 PM, Solly Ross wrote:
>> Code which breaks:
>>
>> Glance's mutliprocessing tests will break (the reason we should limit it now).
>> For the future, people attempting to use psutil will have no clear version target
>> (Either they use 1.x and break with the people who install the latest version from pip,
>> of they use 2.0.0 and break with everything that doesn't use the latest version).
>>
>> psutil's API is extremely unstable -- it has undergone major revisions going from 0.x to 1.x, and now
>> 1.x to 2.0.0.  Limiting psutil explicitly to a single major version (it was more or less implicitly limited
>> before, since there was no version major version above 1) ensures that the requirements.txt file actually
>> indicates what is necessary to use OpenStack.
>>
>> The alternative option would be to update the glance tests, but my concern is that 2.0.0 is not available
>> from the package managers of most distros yet.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Solly Ross
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sean Dague" <sean at dague.net>
>> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:39:41 AM
>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [depfreeze] Exception: limit psutil to <2.0.0
>>
>> On 03/26/2014 10:30 AM, Solly Ross wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I currently have a patch up for review (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/81373/) to limit psutil be <2.0.0.
>>> 2.0.0 just came out a couple weeks ago, and breaks the API in a major way.  Until we can port our code to the
>>> latest version, I suggest we limit the version of psutil to 1.x (currently there's a lower bound in the 1.x
>>> range, just not an upper bound).
>>
>> Which code will be broken by this if it's not done? Is there an RC bug
>> tracking it?
>>
>>       -Sean
>>
>
>
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You should file the bug against the projects that don't work with
latest psutil. The bug is in particular projects being incompatible
with a dependency and belongs to those projects.

Clark



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