Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Art Age Software wrote: > A one-off build does not address the issue of continuing updates going forward. > But you have an immediate need? I'd take a 'right now' fix given the opportunity, then figure out the rest later. I'm a very utilitarian individual - I just want it fixed most of the time. > Is it so surprising that I do not want to be a package maintainer? > This is why I chose a managed distro like RHEL/CentOS in the first > place. > You have to remember - DRBD is not officially part of RHEL, therefore is not part of the core CentOS repository. You are at the whims and desires of the package maintainers as to what is included in the extras/plus repos. You can't have the best of both worlds - Consistency and stability which comes from a tried and true package release schedule, plus non-standard packages tacked on the side. I run DRBD on RHEL with the understanding that i'm probably going to trip over somewhere when RedHat changes something and there are not new packages yet for DRBD (e.g. there was a lag of a day between the most current RHEL4 kernel and drbd82 kernel modules). That's a decision I made, and something I remember when it comes to making modifications - I face the same dilemma with XFS and OCFS2 which both have kernel dependencies. Once again, it's a calculated risk which I deal with. David