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Adding rdo-list in an attempt to get more feeback regarding this
proposal, tl;dr can we ship python-virtualbmc in Newton?

On 04-10-17 12:08:25, Lee Yarwood wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm currently working to get the tripleo-spec for fast-forward upgrades
> out of WIP and merged ahead of the Queens M-1 milestone next week. One
> of the documented pre-requisite steps for fast-forward upgrades is for
> an operator to linearly upgrade the undercloud from Newton (N) to Queens
> (N+3):
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/497257/
> 
> This is not possible at present with tripleo-quickstart deployed virtual
> environments thanks to our use of the pxe_ssh Ironic driver in Newton
> that has now been removed in Pike:
> 
> https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ironic/pike.html#id14
> 
> I briefly looked into migrating between pxe_ssh and the new default of
> vbmc during the Ocata to Pike undercloud upgrade but I'd much rather
> just deploy Newton using vbmc. AFAICT the only issue here is packaging
> with the python-virtualbmc package not present in the Newton repos.
> 
> With that in mind I've submitted the following changes that remove the
> various conditionals in tripleo-quickstart that block the use of vbmc in
> Newton and verified that this works by using the Ocata python-virtualbmc
> package:
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:allow_vbmc_newton+(status:open+OR+status:merged)
> 
> FWIW I can deploy successfully on Newton with these changes and then
> upgrade the undercloud to Pike just fine.
> 
> Would anyone be able to confirm *if* we could ship python-virtualbmc in
> the Newton relevant repos?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Lee
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Lee Yarwood                 A5D1 9385 88CB 7E5F BE64  6618 BCA6 6E33 F672 2D76
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