[Gluster-devel] Fedora (f18), revised packaging for glusterfs

[Vijay Bellur]

On 08/10/2012 12:02 AM, Kaleb Keithley wrote:
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> From: "Joe Julian" <joe at julianfamily.org>
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>> If GlusterFS support is being pushed to the OpenStack project, then I think it shouldn't be in the gluster rpms.
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> Fair enough. I don't disagree with you, but---
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> When will the changes appear in the OpenStack (swift) sources? I don't think we know, do we?
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> And once they're in, will we need to make any associated changes to glusterfs?


We are working on getting the changes into upstream Swift sources. Once 
the changes are in, the probability of associated changes to glusterfs 
being necessary is very low.

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> In the mean time I'm not personally opposed to packaging a set of extra RPMs. Gluster.org has already done that, but not in a convenient way.
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> Once swift is usable out-of-the-box, I'd drop the extra RPMs in a heartbeat because — obviously — it would be silly to keep them at that point.
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> Thoughts?

Sounds good to me.

-Vijay