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+# This file facilitates OpenStack-CI package installation
+# before the execution of any tests.
+#
+# See the following for details:
+#  - http://docs.openstack.org/infra/bindep/
+#  - https://github.com/openstack-infra/bindep
+#
+# Even if the role does not make use of this facility, it
+# is better to have this file empty, otherwise OpenStack-CI
+# will fall back to installing its default packages which
+# will potentially be detrimental to the tests executed.
+
+# Requirements for Paramiko 2.0
+libssl-dev        [platform:dpkg]
+libffi-dev        [platform:dpkg]
+libffi-devel      [platform:rpm]
+openssl-devel     [platform:rpm]
+
+# For selinux
+libselinux-python [platform:rpm]