[openstack-dev] [grenade] upgrades vs rootwrap

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jul 7 20:24:50 UTC 2016


On 7/6/2016 8:06 PM, Angus Lees wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 at 03:06 Matthew Treinish <mtreinish at kortar.org
> <mailto:mtreinish at kortar.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:41:56AM -0500, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>     > I just wonder how many deployments are actually relying on this,
>     since as
>     > noted elsewhere in this thread we don't really enforce this for
>     all things,
>     > only what happens to get tested in our CI system, e.g. the virtuozzo
>     > rootwrap filters that don't have grenade testing.
>
>     Sure, our testing coverage here is far from perfect, that's never
>     been in
>     dispute. It's always been best effort (which there has been limited
>     in this
>     space) like I'm not aware of anything doing any upgrade testing with
>     virtuozzo enabled, or any of the other random ephemeral storage
>     backends,
>     **cough** ceph **cough**.  But, as I said before just because we
>     don't catch all
>     the issues isn't a reason to throw everything out the window.
>
>
> So now we have identified some other examples recently added to the
> codebase, that where not noticed by grenade for one reason or another.
>
> Do we:
> A) revert+postpone the virtuozzo changes until the next release?
> B) add a releasenote saying you need to update the rootwrap filter first?

I already anticipated this when reviewing the changes that added the new 
rootwrap filters and made sure there was a note about this in the 
release notes.

>
> (Yes, this is a test)
>
> It's boring, but not that hard to manually diff filters between releases
> - I can do an audit if we'd like to build a list of other such changes.
>
>  - Gus
>
>
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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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