On 10/06/15 12:07, Robert Collins wrote:
On 10 June 2015 at 20:12, Matthias Runge <mru...@redhat.com> wrote:
Since our software is to be consumed by packages, shouldn't the packages
project consider itself to be responsible for global requirements? I.e.
checking, if requirements are packageable, if versions fit, etc.
I think we welcome input from distribution maintainers on
global-requirements; especially for new packages.
But, the responsibility is ultimately a team effort: all the
components of openstack have to meet the operator/distributor
co-installability requirement. If one project has a minimum version of
X, its not possible for other projects to have a max version of < X
otherwise we're not coinstallable. This works both ways of course.
My wording was not that good here.
I know, some distro packagers are already looking at changes, but maybe
this could be improved, i.e. intensified? It was more about: giving this
more basic openstack effort a home in a project.
In some distros, there are multiple versions of the same package allowed, in
others, it's forbidden.
Thats true, but its also a per-distro thing. Within a distro you need
to be consistent. There's no need for RHEL to match RDO for instance,
and trying to make that happen across a dozen redistributors in the
OpenStack context makes no sense at all. We're moving to making our
ranges as wide as we can to make life easier for anyone that wants to
pick slightly different versions: we can't assert that it will work,
but unless we know it doesnt', we won't preclude you trying :)
Yes, that's right. But distros have an interest in being able to install
the full stack somewhere. If we have conflicting requirements preventing
that, it should be a target of the packaging project, to fix this.
Currently, we (as OpenStack devs) are offloading those checks (and
fixes) completely to distributions.
Matthias
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