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List:       drbd-user
Subject:    Re: [DRBD-user] URGENT Request for DRBD Developers
From:       "Art Age Software" <artagesw () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-05-24 2:42:53
Message-ID: d0860a1a0805231942n7d1e8735sed3a5eecb681f191 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> while far from taking sides I'd like to note that version bumps that have a
> tendency of being incompatible is quite inconvenient. building missing
> components from scratch/by hand precludes change in patch management etc.
> Some can afford it - others can't. If you run "yum update" and get your
> kernel updated and not your DRBD you can find yourself in an unplesant
> situation at some point especially if you run N servers and only fraction of
> them are DRBD-enabled.

True. This is the situation we are in.

> Introducing "new version" in a separate repository helps admin to "fense"
> his/her machines from going into unknown state.

Exactly, which is why I would have preferred to see the 8.2 branch go
into CentOSPlus, without disturbing the 8.0 branch in Extras.
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