diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 029289edc5..c013433d6b 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Linux)
         fi
         ;;
     Fedora)
-        for package in python-pip python-virtualenv libevent-devel libvirt-python; do
+        for package in python-pip python-virtualenv libevent-devel libvirt-python community-mysql-devel; do
 	    if [ "$(rpm -q $package)" == "package $package is not installed" ]; then
 		missing="${missing:+$missing }$package"
 	    fi
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index dc7b8c094e..daff429036 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # 0.14 switches to libev, that means bootstrap needs to change too
 gevent == 0.13.6
-# If you want to use teuthology-coverage:
-#MySQL-python == 1.2.3
+# 1.7.7 has AES-128-CBC support for SSH keys, that's needed
+MySQL-python == 1.2.3
 PyYAML
 argparse >= 1.2.1
 beanstalkc >= 0.2.0