setup.py doesn't seem to work with pbr 1.0

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<nowster> I get an /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/UNKNOWN-0.0.0-py2.7.egg
<ssam2> using './setup.py install' ?
<ssam2> do you have 'pbr' installed?
<nowster> yes, and I think so
<ssam2> jmacs:  if you email your public key to admin@baserock.org then I will set up an x86_64 devel system for you in the cloud, then
<ssam2> may have to wait til tomorrow though
<nowster> site-packages/pbr-1.0-py2.7.egg-info/  exists, as does the site-packages/pbr/ dir
<ssam2> right. I don't know then
<nowster> however, /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'pbr'
<ssam2> that sounds suspicious
<jmacs> ssam2: OK, that sounds great. Thanks!
<nowster> "import pbr" works in python.
<ssam2> I get 'usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sandboxlib-0.3.0.post6-py2.7.egg-info' from 'python ./setup.py install' with commit 776019ae8df349cb35fdeb2c37e2e8561bcad31b of git://github.com/codethinklabs/sandboxlib.git
<nowster> same commit here
<nowster> pbr is 1.0
<nowster> setuptools is 7.0dev
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<nowster> paulsherwood: It's not seeing "pbr"'s hooks, so /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'pbr'
<nowster> and then the package name is UNKNOWN
<straycat> ooi, what version of python?
<paulsherwood> radiofree: w00t!
<paulsherwood> ssam2_: is nowster's error any help for diagnosing what's up?
<nowster> straycat: Python 2.7.9 (default, Feb 10 2015, 04:30:22)
<ssam2_> nowster, paulsherwood: I've no idea what's up, I'm afraid
<nowster> my guess is that the hooks that pbr is supposed to install aren't getting called
<ssam2_> maybe the setup.py isn't using pbr correctly...
<ssam2_> might be worth trying to run setup.py from a different package that also uses pbr
<ssam2_> most of the openstack packages use it
<ssam2_> https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/zuul/tree/ for example -- that's a small package, maybe you could try installing that from Git and see if it works
<ssam2_> if it does, probably sandboxlib is doing something wrong
<ssam2_> if not, probably pbr is broken on your system somehow
* SotK has seen that error before, it was because the installed version of pbr was too old when I saw it IIRC
<ssam2_> ah
<ssam2_> maybe a requirements.txt would help
<nowster> ssam2_: zuul gives same error.
<nowster> SotK: what is the ver of pbr that's needed?
<SotK> nowster: I don't remember, what version do you have installed?
<nowster> It claims to be 1.0
<ssam2_> I have 0.10.8
<ssam2_> but that version works
<SotK> hm, 0.9.0 looks to be the version I had to update to when I was trying to build Zuul last year to fix that issue
<franred> 0.10.7 in Baserock

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My system was using pbr 0.10.8, I upgraded to the latest version from PyPI which was 1.1.1 at the time of writing, and python ./setup.py install worked as expected. So this may be due to a bug in PBR 1.0

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If this is the case, we can set a version requirement in requirements.txt for 'pbr' so that it avoids the broken version. See http://git.baserock.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/delta/openstack/neutron.git/tree/requirements.txt for example