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+---
+# Copyright 2019, Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+tempest_distro_packages:
+  - git
+  - libxslt              # required by the python module unittest2
+  - gcc                  # required to build tempest plugins (TODO) remove this when the repo server can satisfy the tempest plugin requirements
+  - iputils
+  - nmap                 # provides ncat tool which is required by some of the neutron-tempest-plugin scenario tests
+
+_stestr_executable: stestr-3
+
+# NOTE(chandankumar): It is needed by python_venv_build ansible role to create
+# virtualenv. By default venv_python_executable var sets to python2, changing it
+# in the role itself, breaks other roles. So for distros using python3 making the
+# change here fixes the issue.
+_tempest_venv_python_executable: "python3"
+
+tempest_service_distro_packages:
+  - openstack-tempest
+  - python3-subunit
+  - subunit-filters
+
+tempest_devel_distro_packages:
+  - python3-devel        # required for netifaces module for stackviz
+
+tempest_plugin_distro_packages:
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_aodh | bool) | ternary('python3-telemetry-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_barbican | bool) | ternary('python3-barbican-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_ceilometer | bool) | ternary('python3-telemetry-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_cinder | bool) | ternary('python3-cinder-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_designate | bool) | ternary('python3-designate-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_heat | bool) | ternary('python3-heat-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_ironic | bool) | ternary('python3-ironic-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - python3-keystone-tests-tempest
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_magnum | bool) | ternary('python3-magnum-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_manila | bool) | ternary('python3-manila-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_mistral | bool) | ternary('python3-mistral-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_murano | bool) | ternary('python3-murano-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_neutron | bool) | ternary('python3-neutron-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_neutron_vpnaas | bool) | ternary('python3-networking-vpnaas-tests', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_novajoin | bool) | ternary('python3-novajoin-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_octavia | bool) | ternary('python3-octavia-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_sahara | bool) | ternary('python3-sahara-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_whitebox | bool) | ternary('python3-whitebox-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_whitebox_neutron | bool) | ternary('python3-whitebox-neutron-tests-tempest', '') }}"
+  - "{{ (tempest_service_available_zaqar | bool) | ternary('python3-zaqar-tests-tempest', '') }}"