Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
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. Johnny - Thanks for your dedication and all of the time you put into maintaining CentOS. It is much appreciated. *Joe Koenig* *Creative Anvil, Inc.* *Phone: *314.692.0338 1346 Baur Blvd. Olivette, MO 63132 joe at creativeanvil.com http://www.creativeanvil.com Johnny Hughes wrote: > Art Age Software wrote: >> Johnny, >> >> 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? >> >> 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? >> >> 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.) >> > > 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. > > 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): > > exclude=drbd82* > > 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. > > 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. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20080602/c303c1f2/attachment.htm>