[Pkg-ganeti-devel] Ganeti in Wheezy

[Guido Trotter]

Makes sense, I agree.
I hope we can get the exception, at least for the separator option for kvm.

Thanks a lot,

Guido


On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Iustin Pop <iusty at k1024.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I took another look at the status of Ganeti in Wheezy.
>
> We currently have Ganeti 2.5.1 with lots of KVM issues (as I usually
> test only Xen when packaging…), but not only. The following Debian bugs
> are trivial:
>
> - http://bugs.debian.org/676930, which has been fixed in commits
>   2911f46c and 839642c2 (already committed on stable-2.5, but not
>   released)
> - http://bugs.debian.org/677674, which I just found the fix
> - http://bugs.debian.org/624256, which is also
>   http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/issues/detail?id=230, and has a fix
>   both in the Debian bugtracker (but that seems a somewhat bad fix), and
>   in our tracker (which is better, but the author hasn't signed the CLA)
>
> The actual big issue with KVM, namely the disk separator ':', is not
> actually filled in Debian, so I can't yet request a freeze exception for
> it :) I've just filled http://bugs.debian.org/682333 for it, and there
> the proposed fix is to just change the separator and live with the fact
> that VMs will have to be rebooted when upgrading from squeeze to
> wheezy.
>
> So, the plan is:
>
> - ensure that all upstream bugs are fixed upstream (mainly issue 230;
>   I'll wait a few days and )
>   so that we can simply cherry-pick the upstream versions
> - fix #677674
> - change the disk separator for #682333
> - request freeze exception
>
> The only Debian bugs that will remain open after this will be #599445,
> which is fixed in 2.6 only, #650664 (upstream, not fixed yet), and
> #611724, which is most likely unreproducible.
>
> I'll email debian-release now, but the actual packaging and everything
> will only be ready by next weekend, since we need to first sort things
> upstream.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> iustin
>



-- 
Guido Trotter
SRE - Corp Computing Services (aka Horsepower)
Google Ireland
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