Even when using boto < 2.6 force the unlazying to occur

It seems like its possible that boto 2.5.2 and below have the lazy loading
metadata dictionary so as a precaution we will always take the hit of
unlazying the metadata dictionary by traversing it which in the non-lazy
dictionary case has no effect (its marginal). This also removes the need
to check the boto version and the dependency on setup tools just for this
case.

ChangeLog

@@ -38,9 +38,8 @@
    runs the usage of this lazy loading is hidden and since that lazy loading 
    will be performed on future attribute access we must traverse the lazy loaded
    dictionary and force it to full expand so that if cloud-init blocks the ec2
-   metadata port the lazy loaded dictionary will continue working properly 
+   metadata port the lazy loaded dictionary will continue working properly
    instead of trying to make additional url calls which will fail (LP: #1068801)
-    - Added dependency: python-pkg-resources (deb), python-setuptools (rpm)
  - use a set of helper/parsing classes to perform system configuration
    for easier test.  (/etc/sysconfig, /etc/hostname, resolv.conf, /etc/hosts)
 0.7.0:

cloudinit/ec2_utils.py

@@ -16,34 +16,26 @@
 #    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 #    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-import pkg_resources
-from pkg_resources import parse_version as pver
-
 import boto.utils as boto_utils
 
-# Versions of boto >= 2.6.0 try to lazily load
+# Versions of boto >= 2.6.0 (and possibly 2.5.2)
-# the metadata backing, which doesn't work so well
+# try to lazily load the metadata backing, which
-# in cloud-init especially since the metadata is
+# doesn't work so well in cloud-init especially
-# serialized and actions are performed where the
+# since the metadata is serialized and actions are
-# metadata server may be blocked (thus the datasource
+# performed where the metadata server may be blocked
-# will start failing) resulting in url exceptions
+# (thus the datasource will start failing) resulting
-# when fields that do exist (or would have existed)
+# in url exceptions when fields that do exist (or
-# do not exist due to the blocking that occurred.
+# would have existed) do not exist due to the blocking
-
+# that occurred.
-BOTO_LAZY = False
-try:
-    _boto_lib = pkg_resources.get_distribution('boto')
-    if _boto_lib.parsed_version > pver("2.5.2"):  # pylint: disable=E1103
-        BOTO_LAZY = True
-except pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound:
-    pass
 
 
 def _unlazy_dict(mp):
     if not isinstance(mp, (dict)):
         return mp
-    if not BOTO_LAZY:
+    # Walk over the keys/values which
-        return mp
+    # forces boto to unlazy itself and
+    # has no effect on dictionaries that
+    # already have there items.
     for (_k, v) in mp.items():
         _unlazy_dict(v)
     return mp

packages/bddeb

@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ PKG_MP = {
     'cheetah': 'python-cheetah',
     'configobj': 'python-configobj',
     'oauth': 'python-oauth',
-    'pkg_resources': 'python-pkg-resources',
     'prettytable': 'python-prettytable',
     'pyyaml': 'python-yaml',
 }

packages/brpm

@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ PKG_MP = {
     'cheetah': 'python-cheetah',
     'configobj': 'python-configobj',
     'oauth': 'python-oauth',
-    'pkg_resources': 'python-setuptools',
     'prettytable': 'python-prettytable',
     'pyyaml': 'PyYAML',
 }