Bug 1123451

Alan (or Jakub), would a diff this to python-novaclient (for EPEL-7) looks sensible to fix this bug? I used the SPEC from SRPM picked from here[1]
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$ diff -u python-novaclient.spec python-novaclient.spec.mod
--- python-novaclient.spec	2014-12-17 08:23:45.390561429 +0100
+++ python-novaclient.spec.mod	2014-12-17 08:41:56.277644322 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Name:             python-novaclient
 Epoch:            1
 Version:          2.17.0
-Release:          2%{?dist}
+Release:          3%{?dist}
 Summary:          Python API and CLI for OpenStack Nova
 
 Group:            Development/Languages
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 Requires:         python-prettytable
 Requires:         python-requests
 Requires:         python-simplejson
-Requires:         python-six
+Requires:         python-six>= 1.6.1
 Requires:         python-babel
 Requires:         python-keyring
 Requires:         python-setuptools
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@
 %doc html
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Dec 17 2014 Kashyap Chamarthy
+- Add a versioned dependency for python-six (rhbz#1123451)
+
 * Tue May 27 2014 Jakub Ruzicka <jruzicka> 1:2.17.0-2
 - Selective backports (server groups and more)
 - Nova CLI for server groups (rhbz#1101014)
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[1] https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-icehouse/epel-7/python-novaclient-2.17.0-1.el7.src.rpm

Alan, this seems like a reasonable request.  I was going to just submit a change to delorean, but I realized I don't know if there's a workflow that would result in this eventually showing up in our icehouse packages.  What's the correct way of doing this?

Correct way to update Icehouse would be to update f21 Fedora dist-git branch as seen in `rdopkg info`.

However, this is reproducible with any package that doesn't explicitly require minimal version of a requirement and you install older version of that requirement before installing RDO.

We've chosen to not Require specific versions unless neeeded as we control the distribution and this is one of the results.

I don't see fixing this for novaclient only as a real fix as we'd need to update all the packages requiring python-six to be consistent.

How do you suggest we solve this, Alan?

That's the current state of affairs in Fedora/EPEL, seems like this is already fixed and no further action is needed?

$ bodhi -L python-six
dist-5E-epel-testing-candidate  python-six-1.7.3-3.el5
      dist-5E-epel-testing  python-six-1.7.3-3.el5
              dist-5E-epel  python-six-1.7.3-3.el5
      dist-6E-epel-testing  python-six-1.7.3-1.el6
dist-6E-epel-testing-candidate  python-six-1.7.3-1.el6
              dist-6E-epel  python-six-1.7.3-1.el6
       f20-updates-testing  python-six-1.9.0-1.fc20
     f20-updates-candidate  python-six-1.9.0-1.fc20
               f20-updates  python-six-1.9.0-1.fc20
       f21-updates-testing  python-six-1.9.0-1.fc21
               f21-updates  python-six-1.9.0-1.fc21
     f21-updates-candidate  python-six-1.9.0-1.fc21
       f22-updates-testing  python-six-1.9.0-1.fc22
                       f22  python-six-1.9.0-1.fc22
     f22-updates-candidate  python-six-1.9.0-1.fc22

We had decision long ago to add versioned deps on case-by-case basis, it was needed mostly to support service-by-service upgrade scenarios but for stuff like
python-six where we override an obsolete version in base EL7, versioned dependency should be provided.


> a workflow that would result in this eventually showing up in our icehouse packages

It's up to package maintainers, it's not automatic but it does start with spec change in master packaging i.e. github/openstack-packages which is then cherry-picked to older release branches.
Just be careful: dep versions from master might not be applicable for older branches!

BTW Step1 in RDO Quickstart is yum update:
 https://www.rdoproject.org/Quickstart#Step_1:_Software_repositories

I think this can be closed now?