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On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 07:55:07PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> On 2017-11-16 06:59, Ian Wienand wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Some time ago we started the process of moving towards projects being
> > more explicit about thier binary dependencies using bindep [1]
> > 
> > To facilitate the transition, we created a "fallback" set of
> > dependencies [2] which are installed when a project does not specifiy
> > it's own bindep dependencies.  This essentially replicated the rather
> > ad-hoc environment provided by CI images before we started the
> > transition.
> > 
> > This list has acquired a few packages that cause some problems in
> > various situations today.  Particularly packages that aren't in the
> > increasing number of distributions we provide, or packages that come
> > from alternative repositories.
> > 
> > To this end, [3,4] proposes the removal of
> > 
> >  liberasurecode-*
> >  mongodb-*
> >  python-zmq
> >  redis
> >  zookeeper
> >  ruby-*
> > 
> > from the fallback packages.  This has a small potential to affect some
> > jobs that tacitly rely on these packages.
> 
> This has now merged. One fallout I noticed is that pcre-devel is not
> installed anymore and thus "pcre.h" is not found when building some
> python files. If that hits you, update your bindep.txt file with:
> pcre-devel [platform:rpm]
> libpcre3-dev [platform:dpkg]
> 
Good to know, I've been trying to see what other jobs are failing, and haven't
seen too much yet.

> For details about bindep, see
> https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/drivers.html#package-requirements
> 
> Andreas
> 
> > NOTE: this does *not* affect devstack jobs (devstack manages it's own
> > dependencies outside bindep) and if you want them back, it's just a
> > matter of putting them into the bindep file in your project (and as a
> > bonus, you have better dependency descriptions for your code).
> > 
> > We should be able to then remove centos-release-openstack-* from our
> > centos base images too [5], which will make life easier for projects
> > such as triple-o who have to work-around that.
> > 
> > If you have concerns, please reach out either via mail or in
> > #openstack-infra
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > -i
> > 
> > [1] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/bindep/
> > [2] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/project-config/tree/jenkins/data/bindep-fallback.txt
> > [3] https://review.openstack.org/519533
> > [4] https://review.openstack.org/519534
> > [5] https://review.openstack.org/519535
> 
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