[Gluster-devel] Proposal for some RPM packaging changes

[Niels de Vos]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:21:10AM -0500, James wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 1. glusterfs-server (glusterd) and glusterfs-geo-replication depend on
> >    each other. It is not possible to install glusterfs-server without
> >    glusterfs-geo-replication, or the other way around.
> 
> The only question I would have is why does glusterfs-server, depend on
> geo-replication?

It seems that this is not the case for all releases. Current releases do 
not have the dependency. There have been releases where glusterd (from 
glusterfs-server) would not start in case glusterfs-geo-replication was 
not installed.

Obviously the associated bug [1] that I filed for merging these two 
packages is now closed as NOTABUG, and the review request [2] for the 
modified .spec file has been abandoned.

In case glusterd has trouble starting without geo-replication installed, 
a new bug will need to be filed and we'll reconsider the merging of 
glusterfs-server and glusterfs-geo-replication again.

Sorry for the noise,
Niels

1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065383
2. http://review.gluster.org/7013