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Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:

> On 2016-10-04 18:22:10 +0200 (+0200), Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
> [...]
>> When I execute 'bindep test’ locally, I get the following error on  
>> centos7.2
>> which is expected:
>>
>> Bad versions of installed packages:
>>     sqlite version 3.7.17-8.el7 does not match >=3.8
>>
>> I would think that this output is passed to apt-get in the gate. But  
>> then I
>> see the following failure in gate:
>>
>> http://logs.openstack.org/06/381906/3/check/gate-neutron-pep8-ubuntu-xenial/148dcd8/console.html#_2016-10-04_15_57_36_846699
> [...]
>
> We hashed this out just now in #openstack-infra, but the quick
> summary is that version specifiers with bindep are sort of
> experimental. They were added as part of its initial design but the
> first implementation was dpkg-only and made some assumptions about
> how distros track available vs installed package versions that
> couldn't easily be extended to other platforms. As a result, when we
> started adding rpm (and then later emerge) support, we pretty much
> just punted on version handling until someone actually turned up who
> needed it and was willing to do the work to add it in a useful
> cross-platform manner. For now at least, version specifiers have
> poor coverage in bindep's unit tests and no coverage in its
> functional tests and have probably bit-rotted on us.
>
> It's on me that I forgot we actually mention version constraints in
> the bindep documentation, with no indication that they aren't a
> first-class feature at the moment. Anyway, it sounds like you may
> have time and interest to help us get this supported properly (at
> least for rpm-based platforms), so I'm thrilled and looking forward
> to working with you toward that goal. Thanks again!
> -- 
> Jeremy Stanley
>
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For reader’s sake, the patch to support versions for brief mode of the tool  
is: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/381979/

Cheers,
Ihar