[Starlingx-discuss] [OpenStack Ussuri Upgrade Task] Call for patch review!!

[Scott Little]

In short, ussuri should not be merged.

Scott


On 2020-06-22 1:32 p.m., Scott Little wrote:
> The ussuri build only passed because I created customized build 
> scripts for that feature branch.  This was to prove that the python2/3 
> issues were the only issues with the build.  I was in no way 
> committing to deliver those customizations into the master branch build.
>
> 1) We would loose the ability to build on older branches without 
> significant extra effort.
>
> 2) It would be very fragile.  It relies on hard code list of packages 
> that are to be compiled for python3 vs python2.  I'm sure that list 
> will be changing over time.
>
> What I would like to see is build-stx-images.sh modified to look for 
> and consume a config file that tells it how to partition wheels and 
> images into two separate builds.  Externally, the command remains a 
> single invocation with no new arguments. The config file could then be 
> modified to individually shift images from python2 to python3 build 
> method without having to tinker with cengn build scripts every time 
> there is a change.
>
> Scott