Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix venv issues with Avocado by reverting to an older version

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 6/5/23 11:46, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> To avoid this issue, tests/requirements.txt should use a ">=" constraint
>> and the version of Avocado should be limited to what distros provide
>> in the system packages.  Only Fedora has Avocado, and more specifically
>> version 92.0.  For now, this series reverts to the older requirement
>> (version >=88.1) while leaving further version bumps to future changes.
> If the new Avocado version is broken, don't we also need a < constraint
> so we don't get it by mistake ?

I expected those to be bugs that get fixed in 102 or 101.1, so not a 
reason to impose a strict constraint.  But you're right, the version 
that would be installed from PyPI is the latest; I didn't notice because 
I do have avocado installed outside pyvenv/.

Is the logging issue limited to the one fixed by 
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg962758.html?  Or 
is there something more?

> In particular, for a local build tree that currently has 101 installed,
> if the tree is updated to include these two patches together, will that
> correctly downgrade it to 88.1?

No, it won't.  What you can do is "pyvenv/bin/pip uninstall 
avocado-framework".

Paolo