[openstack-dev] [Nova] Requirements.txt and optional requirements

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 17:32:14 UTC 2015


On 01/27/2015 09:13 AM, Silvan Kaiser wrote:
>> Am 27.01.2015 um 16:51 schrieb Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com>:
>> b) The Glance API image cache can use xattr if SQLite is not
>> desired [1], and Glance does *not* list xattr as a dependency in
>> requirements.txt. Swift also has a dependency on python-xattr [2].
>> So, this particular Python library is not an unknown by any means.
> Do you happen to know how Glance handles this if the dep. is not
> handled in requirements.txt?

Yep, it's considered a documentation thing and handled in configuration 
management manifests...

Best,
-jay



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