tracking bug for RDO packaging issue blocking rdophase2 promotion: python-cheetah dependencies

[Matt Young]

note: this is not a bug specifically in tripleo per se, however it is an issue that's blocking the promotion pipeline for OSP.

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It seems that the python-cheetah package is pulled in from manila and nova, neither of which need the package. When migrating from RHEL 7.3 --> 7.4 in rdo-on-rhel jobs, the source for python-cheetah has moved. We used to have an internal repo (rh-common) where this lived. This has been removed in RHEL 7.4, and the python-cheetah package now lives as part of OSP puddles.

This however means that the existing jobs don't have a place to find the package, as for RHEL we're not pulling from Centos base repos. There were 2 solutions discussed:

1. packaging python-cheetah in RDO
2. removing the dependencies entirely, as this package isn't in use, it's just a vestigial dep.

The Release Team and RDO folk have decided on #2. The following workaround is proposed internally for use until rdophase2 promotes a hash containing the updated nova and manila rpm's is promoted.

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https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/#/c/118317

When moving 7.4 to the fore, rh-common is no more.

python-cheetah used to come from there, now it's coming from a side repo
internally until the changes that remove the deps land in stable
branches of RDO distgits.

Context: https://trello.com/c/BJATJAr1/285-rdophase2rhel-image-build-failing-uc-convert-manila-dep-issue-w-rhel-74-newton#comment-59bfde3c8593eaa163a80485

remove python-cheetah from openstack/nova-distgit
- https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/9618/

remove python-cheetah from openstack/manila-distgit
- https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/9620/

Change-Id: I5937045dfae834e0ce3447ef1bba5551de4a3221

[Alex Schultz (alex-schultz)]

Looks like the deps have been removed. Please reopen this if that is not the cause.