> >> The 1.2.0 release from > >> http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-python/ doesn't look like an > >> sdist, either (I see a configure script, so I think they've switched > >> to autoconf). Uploading that version to PyPI isn't going to give you > >> something you can install with pip. Are there system packages for > >> dbus-python for the distros we support directly? > > Yes; RHEL6 and Ubuntu 12.04 include python-dbus packages. > > How about SuSE and Debian? Ubuntu got the package from Debian AFAIK; it's available.
A google search seems to indicate a dbus-1-python-devel-0.83.0-27.1.43.x86_64.rpm for SLES11-SP3. > >> That release also appears to be just over a year old. Do you know if > >> dbus-python is being actively maintained any more? Are there other > >> libraries for talking to dbus? > > AFAIK dbus-python is the most current and preferred one. > > > > http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/ lists two alternatives, but as > > these are not packaged (yet) I chose python-dbus instead. > > > > > > Can Jenkins use the pre-packaged versions instead of downloading and > > compiling the tarball? > > If dbus-python is indeed the best library, that may be the way to go. > System-level dependencies can be installed via devstack, so you could > submit a patch to devstack to install this library for cinder's use by > editing files/*/cinder. Within the devstack repository, I guess. > You'll also need to modify cinder's tox.ini to set "sitepackages = > True" so the virtualenvs created for the unit tests can see the global > site-packages directory. Nova does the same thing for some of its > dependencies. But such a change would affect _all_ people, right? Hmmm... If you think such a change will be accepted? Thank you for your help! Regards, Phil -- : Ing. Philipp Marek : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com : DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev