On 04/20/2015 08:22 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: >> I believe Redhat patch it out. I don't think they should need to, >> since we have explicit knobs for distros to use. > > pbr pulls pip which we don't want in RHEL. Example of patches in RDO: > > https://github.com/redhat-openstack/nova/commit/a19939c8f9a7b84b8a4d713fe3d26949e5664089 > https://github.com/redhat-openstack/python-keystoneclient/commit/e02d529a87aef8aaca0616c8ee81de224bf1f52a > https://github.com/redhat-openstack/neutron/commit/85302b75362df30270383e3a373e60e81b1b2384 > (well, it's always the same change) > > Can't we enhance pbr to build (source/wheel) distributions of applications which don't depend on pbr? Basically implement these patches in pbr? > > I read somewhere that pkg_resources may also be used to get the version. > You're absolutely correct, here's a quick snippet to get the version as a string: import pkg_resources pkg_resources.get_distribution('nova').version Where, of course, s/nova/any-package-name/ -- Ryan Brown / Software Engineer, Openstack / Red Hat, Inc.