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On 2016-05-09 10:29, Robert Collins wrote:
> On 30 April 2016 at 09:00, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> wrote:
>> Paul and myself discussed this morning how to move forward with binary
>> package installation - the bindep-fallback.txt/other-requirements.txt story.
>>
>> I wrote up what we discussed and hope I didn't forgot anything here. Please
>> review and comment - and sign up if you want to help.
>>
>> Andreas - who will board his plane to Washington in a few minutes
>>
>> Goals:
>> 1. bindep-fallback.txt should be minimal and handle packages that the
>>    majority of projects need.
>> 2. Projects can use other-requirements to document their binary
>>    requirements.
>> 3. There are no apt-get/yum install commands in jenkins/jobs/
>>
>> Proposal:
>>
>> 1. Resolve with lifeless how the other-requirements.txt file should
>>    look like, see:
>>    nova: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/200672/
>>    swift: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/298313/
> 
> I'm not sure what resolving is needed? the only outstanding question I

With resolving I meant: Figure out how the entries should look like and
whether we need to invoke bindep differently - and whether bindep needs
a fix.

> saw there was whether the default profile was always active - it is.
> 
> The issue I mention with bindep is that
> 
> foo[platform:dpkg test]
> 
> Will default on on dpkg platforms, because one of the profiles is
> active - but it shouldn't, because there are other user profiles
> listed. The rule should be 'A thing is in the default profile if all
> the profiles listed are automatic profiles, otherwise it is not in the
> default profile'.

So, how should we write the files?

Should they have [test] for everything in it? In that case, we would
need to invoke the test profile in bindep and fix bindep to handle the
issue you mentioned above.

Andreas
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