Questions and Answers¶
How do I cause the anvil dependencies to be reinstalled?¶
Anvil bootstraps itself via shell script (if you look at the code
in the file smithy
you will see that it is actually a bash
script).
This bootstrapping occurs to ensure that anvils pypi/rpm/deb
dependencies are installed before anvil can actually be used.
To remove the files that are left behind to let the shell script
know when this happens delete files located at $HOME/.anvil_bootstrapped
and at $PWD/.anvil_bootstrapped
to cause bootstrapping to occur again.
Another way to make this happen temporarily is to use the following:
sudo BOOT_FILES=/dev/null ./smithy
This will make anvil think those files are coming from /dev/null
which will always return nothing. Using the same variable
also allows you to retarget the locations where the smithy
shell script will look for the ‘marker’ files if
you so choose (say in a continuous integration environment).
How do I run a specific OpenStack milestone?¶
Anvil has the same tag names as OpenStack releases so to run against a specific milestone of OpenStack just checkout the same tag in anvil and run the same actions as you would have ran previously.
An example of this, lets adjust nova
to use the stable/essex
branch.
- Open
conf/origins/master.yaml
file in your favorite editor - Locate lines that describe the
nova
component - Change branch parameter to the desired one
nova:
repo: https://github.com/openstack/nova.git
branch: stable/essex
- Component origin parameters are:
repo: <repo_url>
- requiredbranch: <branch>
- optionaltag: <tag>
- optional
If no branch nor tag parameters were specified then
branch: master
is used by default.Note: tag overrides branch (so you can’t really include both)