On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 7:11 AM Jeremy Stanley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2019-09-27 17:26:15 +1000 (+1000), Ian Wienand wrote: > [...] > > Installing pip and virtualenv from upstream sources has a long history > > full of bugs and workarounds nobody wants to think about (if you do > > want to think about it, you can start at [2]). > [...] > > I'm thinking that CentOS 8 is a good place to stop this. We just > > won't support, in dib, installing pip/virtualenv from source for > > CentOS 8. We hope for the best that the packaged versions of tools > > are always working, but *if* we do require fixes to the system > > packages, we will implement that inside jobs directly, rather than on > > the base images. > [...] > > This seems like a reasonable shift to me. I'd eventually love to see > us stop preinstalling pip and virtualenv entirely, allowing jobs to > take care of doing that at runtime if they need to use them.
+1 for this, it'll simplify building nodepool images a lot more > -- > Jeremy Stanley > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-Infra mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra -- Mohammed Naser — vexxhost ----------------------------------------------------- D. 514-316-8872 D. 800-910-1726 ext. 200 E. [email protected] W. http://vexxhost.com _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
