[Gluster-devel] Gluster version recap

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

On 04/15/2015 01:39 AM, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As 3.7 release approaches, here's a summary of our current thinking
> about the RPM versions that will ship in various versions of Fedora.
>
> Fedora 20: glusterfs-3.5.x
> Fedora 21: glusterfs-3.6.x
> Fedora 22: glusterfs-3.6.x
> Fedora 23 (rawhide) glusterfs-3.7.x

I'm surprised nobody caught this. The correct list is

Fedora 20: glusterfs-3.5.x
Fedora 21: glusterfs-3.5.x
Fedora 22: glusterfs-3.6.x
Fedora 23 (rawhide) glusterfs-3.7.x

> N.B. we will continue to provide community packages of all versions of
> GlusterFS on download.gluster.org for all shipping/supported versions of
> Fedora and RHEL (including CentOS, etc.). We will also continue to
> provide community packages for selected other distributions.
>
> To avoid a repeat of the issue we had with the release of the RHS
> versions of GlusterFS-3.6 RPMs in RHEL and CentOS, we intend to ship
> GlusterFS 3.7 RPMs that have Release numbers starting with 100, e.g.:
>
> Community GlusterFS RPMs:        glusterfs-3.7.0-100.el6.x86_64.rpm
> RHGS RPMs on RHEL, CentOS, etc.: glusterfs-3.7.0.29-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
>
> Testing shows that using the above scheme will preclude RHGS RPMs from
> ever over-writing Community GlusterFS RPMs that have been installed on a
> system.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
>
> Kaleb

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Kaleb