openstack in EPEL status

[Pádraig Brady]

On 11/16/2011 12:53 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Yep.  It's not too hard to package parallel installable versions.  Getting software to use it is the hard part.  You can use setuptools to set python to find the correct versions (which is the recommendations in the guidelines I believe).  The drawback is that setuptools is stupid about things sometimes so you might get errors that you have problems figuring out unless you have experience with it (I can help with that if you need it). You can also manually set python's path (Either PYTHONPATH as an environment variable or sys.path inside of python itself) to find the correct module directory.  The setuptools way looks something like this:
> 
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> # The next section is not needed in most cases but in some cases, like using # mod_wsgi to load a wsgi script this may be necessary try: from __main__ import __requires__ except ImportError: __main__.__requires__ == [] __requires__ = __main__.__requires__ else: if isinstance(basestring, __requires__): __requires__ = [__requires__]
> 
> # This is where you add the parallel installable version __requires__.append('SQLAlchemy >= 0.6')
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> # This is where you import pkg_resources.  pkg_resources sets up the proper # python paths when you import it for the first time.  Unless you look at # funny.  Or talk bad about its mother import pkg_resources # This next one probably isn't necessary since we used __requires__ above # Note that the pkg_resources docs only talk about the call talked about # next but it's entirely inadequate for the job. pkg_resources.require('SQLAlchemy >= 0.6')
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> import sqlalchemy
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> # Should print 0.6.? print sqlalchemy.__version__
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> 
> This is the way it looks modifying sys.path yourself.  Note that you have to change it when the python-sqlalchemy package is updated if you do it this way and you use the easy_install recipe from the guidelines to install the compat sqlalchemy package::
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> import sys sys.path.insert(0, '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.1-py2.7.egg') import sqlalchemy print sqlalchemy.__version__

Thanks for the tips Toshio!!

> I've also attempted to create sqlalchemy0.6 and sqlalchemy0.7 packages in the past.  Both fail to build on RHEL6 right now.  You'll have to look at the unittests.  With sqlalchemy 0.7, at least some of the unittests looked like genuine failures (rather than simply needing updates to the unittests).

Yes it's awkward. Here are my rebuild notes for 0.6.8 on RHEL 6.2

    python-nose is not new enough to build.  The correct version wasn't
    specified in the spec though and the resultant error crashed RHEL once:
      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753505
    I hacked together an updated python-nose to allow running sqlalchemy %checks
    which passed, but then disabled the %checks so as not to need a newer
    python-nose (and the newer packages it in turn needs to be built with).

In case it's of use, you can find the RHEL python-sqlalchemy-0.6.8 packages
I was testing with, here http://www.pixelbeat.org/openstack/

cheers,
Pádraig.