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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I've been
quietly watching this thread - don't use 8.0 and don't plan to,
however, I just wanted to say that this is exactly why I use CentOS and
support the community. <br>
<br>
Johnny - Thanks for your dedication and all of the time you put into
maintaining CentOS. It is much appreciated.</font></font><br>
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<br>
Johnny Hughes wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4844231A.80607@hughesjr.com" type="cite">Art Age
Software wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Johnny,
<br>
<br>
I'm curious. How much work would it be to continue supporting the 8.0
<br>
branch in Extras? It looks like you created a new name for 8.2
<br>
(drbd82), so that allows users to mask out one version or the other to
<br>
prevent update conflicts, right?
<br>
<br>
Several people on the list have chimed in with how trivial it is to
<br>
build from the rpms. If that is true, and there is no issue with
<br>
conflicts (several earlier 8.0 releases remain in Extras now), then
<br>
why not continue to support both?
<br>
<br>
I'm not trying to be antagonistic here. I'm genuinely curious if this
<br>
would add tons of work for you to keep both branches built and
<br>
up-to-date. Or is this purely a philosophical issue? (BTW, I am
<br>
actively considering making the move to 8.2. But I don't know whether
<br>
it will be possible.)
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
OK ... I have decided that I WILL maintain the 8.0.x branch in centos-5
extras ... HOWEVER, I still recommend using the 8.2.x branch, and it
will still be set to obsolete the 8.0.x branch.
<br>
<br>
If people would RATHER use the 8.0.x branch, what they will need to do
is add the following lines to their yum.conf (or CentOS-Base.repo file
in /etc/yum.repos.d/ ... in that file, to the extras and centosplus
repos):
<br>
<br>
exclude=drbd82*
<br>
<br>
If people take this step, then yum will work fine with drbd and ignore
drbd82. If you do not do that, then drbd82 will obsolete/replace drbd
normally.
<br>
<br>
I do this even though I don't think it is the best idea and by doing so
I commit myself to MORE work for the next seven years than maintaining
just one branch of DRBD for centos-5. Hopefully the people who will
use the 8.0.x branch are appreciative.
<br>
<br>
Thanks,
<br>
Johnny Hughes
<br>
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