Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Gordan Bobic <drbd at bobich.net> wrote: > If you are afraid of looking after your own package collection, you really > should reconsider your calling as a systems administrator. I never claimed to be a "systems administrator." > Arguably, if you are _that_ concerned about stability, you shouldn't be > upgrading _anything_ unless you verifiably run into a bug. Blindly running > yum update is a recipe for disaster. I agree. And I don't blindly run updates. DRBD 8.0.11 has a verifiable and critical bug with respect to dopd and failover handling. I want to specifically update the DRBD package + any dependencies and nothing more. > So I seriously suggest you wake up and smell the coffee. Rebuilding DRBD > RPMs from the tar ball sources available for download is a trivial effort. > You spent more time writing the original email than it would have taken you > to build the rpm packages if you'd actually bothered to try. Really, no need to be snippy. This is about more than the time it takes to download and build a tarball once. It is about the ongoing maintenance of a complicated system which is made easier by the availability of pre-built maintained packages. It isn't as if I am asking CentOS to add some new package that I need just to save me a bit of time. This is a case where something that was there (8.0.x support) was suddenly taken away, leaving those of us who were depending on continued support for the 8.0 branch in the lurch and now looking for other solutions. I am seriously surprised that this has turned out to be such a controversial issue. Managed package repositories are all about leverage. Sure, I and hundreds of other users could figure out how to build and maintain our own 8.0 builds. Would it not be better to have the CentOS repo do that for us? Isn't that its purpose? Seems to me that there is a really simple solution to this issue. Support 8.0 in Extras and 8.2 in Plus. Problem solved. Why the controversy? Wait, don't answer that. I realize at this point we are way off-topic for the DRBD list. I would still like to hear the DRBD devs weigh in, per the intent of my initial post. Cheers.