On 05/08/2015 07:13 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
> On 8 May 2015 at 22:54, Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> wrote:
>> I'm slightly confused how we got there, because we do try to install
>> everything all at once in the test jobs -
>> http://logs.openstack.org/83/181083/1/check/check-requirements-integration-dsvm/4effcf7/console.html#_2015-05-07_17_49_26_699
>>
>> And it seemed to work, you can find similar lines in previous changes as
>> well. That was specifically added as a check for these kinds of issues.
>> Is this a race in the resolution?
> 
> What resolution :).
> 
> So what happens with pip install -r
> /opt/stack/new/requirements/global-requirements.txt is that the
> constraints in that file are all immediately put into pip's state,
> including oslo.config >= 1.11.0, and then all other constraints that
> reference to oslo.config are simply ignored. this is 1b (and 2a) on
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988.
> 
> IOW we haven't been testing what we've thought we've been testing.
> What we've been testing is that 'python setup.py install X' for X in
> global-requirements.txt works, which sadly doesn't tell us a lot at
> all.
> 
> So, as I have a working (but unpolished) resolver, when I try to do
> the same thing, it chews away at the problem and concludes that no, it
> can't do it - because its no longer ignoring the additional
> constraints.
> 
> To get out of the hole, we might consider using pip-compile now as a
> warning job - if it can succeed we'll be able to be reasonably
> confident that pip itself will succeed once the resolver is merged.
> 
> The resolver I have doesn't preserve the '1b' feature at all at this
> point, and we're going to need to find a way to separate out 'I want
> X' from 'I want X and I know better than you', which will let folk get
> into tasty tasty trouble (like we're in now).

Gotcha, so, yes, so the subtleties of pip were lost here.

Instead of using another tool, could we make a version of this job pull
and use the prerelease version of your pip code. Then we can run the
same tests and fix them in a non voting job against this code that has
not yet released.

        -Sean

-- 
Sean Dague
http://dague.net

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