<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">*On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 4:56 PM Ingo Fischer <<a href="mailto:ingo@fischer-ka.de" target="_blank">ingo@fischer-ka.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Kaleb,<br>
<br>
I'm currently experiencing this issue while trying to upgrade my Proxmox<br>
servers where gluster is installed too.<br>
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Thank you for the official information for the community, but what<br>
exactly do this mean?<br>
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Will upgrades from 5.8 to 5.9 work or what exactly needs to be done in<br>
order to get the update done?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I expect they will work as well as updating from, e.g., gluster's old style glusterfs_5.4 debs to debian's new style glusterfs_5.5 debs. IOW probably not very well. My guess is that you will probably need to uninstall 5.8 followed by installing 5.9.</div><div><br></div><div>Here at Red Hat, as one might guess, we don't use a lot of Debian or Ubuntu. My experience with Debian and Ubuntu has been limited to building the packages. (FWIW, in a previous job I used SLES and OpenSuSE, and before that I used Slackware.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>These are "community" packages and they're free. I personally do feel like the community really should shoulder some of the burden to test them and report any problems. Give them a try. Let us know what does or doesn't work. And send PRs.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Debian Stretch is not affected?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>TL;DNR: if it was, I would have said so. ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>The Debian packager didn't change the packaging on stretch or bionic and xenial. The gluster community packages for those distributions are the same as they've always been.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Thank you for additional information<br>
<br>
Ingo<br>
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Am 07.08.19 um 19:38 schrieb Kaleb Keithley:<br>
> *TL;DNR: *updates from glusterfs-5.8 to glusterfs-5.9 and from<br>
> glusterfs-6.4 to glusterfs-6.5, — using the package repos on<br>
> <a href="https://download.gluster.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://download.gluster.org</a> or the Gluster PPA on Launchpad— on<br>
> buster, bullseye/sid, and some Ubuntu releases may not work, or may not<br>
> work smoothly. Consider yourself warned. Plan accordingly.<br>
> <br>
> *Longer Answer*: updates from glusterfs-5.8 to glusterfs-5.9 and from<br>
> glusterfs-6.4 to glusterfs-6.5, — using the package repos on<br>
> <a href="https://download.gluster.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://download.gluster.org</a> or the Gluster PPA on Launchpad — on<br>
> buster, bullseye, and some Ubuntu releases may not work, or may not work<br>
> smoothly.<br>
> <br>
> *Why*: The original packaging bits were contributed by the Debian<br>
> maintainer of GlusterFS. For those that know Debian packaging, these did<br>
> not follow normal Debian packaging conventions and best practices.<br>
> Recently — for some definition of recent — the powers that be in Debian<br>
> apparentl insisted that the packaging actually start to follow the<br>
> conventions and best practices, and the packaging bits were rewritten<br>
> for Debian. The only problem is that nobody bothered to notify the<br>
> Gluster Community that this was happening. Nor did they send their new<br>
> bits to GlusterFS. We were left to find out about it the hard way.<br>
> <br>
> *The Issue*: people who have used the packages from<br>
> <a href="https://download.gluster.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://download.gluster.org</a> are experiencing issues updating other<br>
> software that depends on glusterfs.<br>
> <br>
> *The Change*: Gluster Community packages will now be built using<br>
> packaging bits derived from the Debian packaging bits, which now follow<br>
> Debian packaging conventions and best practices.<br>
> <br>
> *Conclusion*: This may be painful, but it's better in the long run for<br>
> everyone. The volunteers who generously build packages in their copious<br>
> spare time for the community appreciate your patience and understanding.<br>
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