From drbd-user  Mon Jun 02 16:43:06 2008
From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists () hughesjr ! com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:43:06 +0000
To: drbd-user
Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] URGENT Request for DRBD Developers
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Art Age Software wrote:
> Johnny,
>=20
> I'm curious. How much work would it be to continue supporting the 8.0
> branch in Extras? It looks like you created a new name for 8.2
> (drbd82), so that allows users to mask out one version or the other to
> prevent update conflicts, right?
>=20
> Several people on the list have chimed in with how trivial it is to
> build from the rpms. If that is true, and there is no issue with
> conflicts (several earlier 8.0 releases remain in Extras now), then
> why not continue to support both?
>=20
> I'm not trying to be antagonistic here. I'm genuinely curious if this
> would add tons of work for you to keep both branches built and
> up-to-date. Or is this purely a philosophical issue? (BTW, I am
> actively considering making the move to 8.2. But I don't know whether
> it will be possible.)
>=20

OK ... I have decided that I WILL maintain the 8.0.x branch in centos-5=20
extras ... HOWEVER, I still recommend using the 8.2.x branch, and it=20
will still be set to obsolete the 8.0.x branch.

If people would RATHER use the 8.0.x branch, what they will need to do=20
is add the following lines to their yum.conf (or CentOS-Base.repo file=20
in /etc/yum.repos.d/ ... in that file, to the extras and centosplus repos=
):

exclude=3Ddrbd82*

If people take this step, then yum will work fine with drbd and ignore=20
drbd82.  If you do not do that, then drbd82 will obsolete/replace drbd=20
normally.

I do this even though I don't think it is the best idea and by doing so=20
I commit myself to MORE work for the next seven years than maintaining=20
just one branch of DRBD for centos-5.  Hopefully the people who will use =

the 8.0.x branch are appreciative.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes


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