"nova-manage version" and "nova-manage --version" sometimes return different versions

[David Ripton]

Downstream bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952811

Seems that "nova-manage version" and "nova-manage --version" return the same thing in some environments but different things in other environments.

This appears to break Tempest:

http://<email address hidden>/msg03847.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/tempest/+bug/1214781

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

This is the tempest bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/tempest/+bug/1214781

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/78361

[David Ripton (dripton)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1159957 is related.

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/78361/ is currently failing tempest tests; I may have to change tempest to fix this.

[Jay Pipes (jaypipes)]

Related bugs are marked Invalid. Patch is abandoned, so marking this Invalid. David, please reset the status to something else if you disagree. Thanks!

-jay