I'd imagine the use of a Software Collection that includes a newer python for the OpenStack packages, or RHOSP, being purpose built for OpenStack, will take the plunge and upgrade the system python version.
- jlk On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Tim Bell <tim.b...@cern.ch> wrote: > I¹m not seeing an easy solution other than to migrate to v7 in the longer > termŠ we¹ve worked with RDO to get the packages back ported for Juno for > v6 but with python pre-reqs this is going to get more and more difficult. > It is one of those regular scenarios we encounter where neither staying > still or moving forward are particularly attractive. > > It makes me wonder how RHOSP will be supporting these environments (or is > the commitment to keep an OpenStack release working for a period of time > rather than guaranteeing that you do not need to upgrade the OS ?)Š > > Tim > > On 5/15/15, 12:04 PM, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > >On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 06:25:48AM +0000, Tim Bell wrote: > >> > >> What are the benefits of upping the minimum libvirt ? > >> > >> We've got 3,200 hypervisors still running v6 with a plan to > >> gradually migrate to 7 but this does take some time. We'll > >> see with RDO this week as to how/if we can get something > >> going with SCL on v6. > > > >Tim, if you can't get Python 2.7 from SCL working acceptably, > >what would be your fallback approach ? Would you try to patch > >Nova to work on Python 2.6 again, or would you simply delay > >updating Nova until you have v7 hosts to run on ? > > > >Likewise if we were to decide to drop support for libvrt in > >v6 from Nova, how would you imagine dealing with that ? Would > >you just re-add the compat code we removed from Nova to make > >it work with old libvirt again ? > > > >Regards, > >Daniel > >-- > >|: http://berrange.com -o- > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > >|: http://libvirt.org -o- > >http://virt-manager.org :| > >|: http://autobuild.org -o- > >http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > >|: http://entangle-photo.org -o- > >http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators >
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