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Thomas,

Thanks for finding this.  I have opened a bug and submitted a patch.

Patch:  https://review.openstack.org/552134

Bug:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+bug/1755282

Jay

(jungleboyj)


On 3/12/2018 3:17 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When inspecting Cinder's (Queens release) cinder.conf, I can see:
>
> # Warning: Failed to format sample for my_ip
> # unhashable type: 'HostAddress'
>
> So it seems there's an issue in either Cinder or Oslo. How can I
> investigate and fix this?
>
> It's very likely that I'm once more the only person in the OpenStack
> community that is really checking config file generation (it used to be
> like that for past releases), and therefore the only one who noticed it.
>
> Also, looking at the code, this seems to be yet-another-instance of
> "package cannot be built reproducible" [1] with the build host config
> leaking in the configuration (well, once that's fixed...). Indeed, in
> the code I can read:
>
>      cfg.HostAddressOpt('my_ip',
>                         default=netutils.get_my_ipv4(),
>                         help='IP address of this host'),
>
> This means that, when that's repaired, build Cinder will write something
> like this:
>
> #my_ip = 1.2.3.4
>
> With 1.2.3.4 being the value of netutils.get_my_ipv4(). This is easily
> fixed by adding something like this:
>
> sample-default='<IP-ADDRESS>'
>
> I'm writing this here for Cinder, but there's been numerous cases like
> this already. The most common mistake being the hostname of the build
> host leaking in the configuration. While this is easily fixed at the
> packaging level fixing the config file after generating it with
> oslo.config, often that config file is also built with the sphinx doc,
> and then that file isn't built reproducibly. That's harder to detect,
> and easier fixed upstream.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>
> [1] https://reproducible-builds.org/
>
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