[Gluster-devel] How can we prevent GlusterFS packaging installation/update issues in future?

[Humble Devassy Chirammal]

Hi Neils,

>
My guess is that we need to announce packaging changes very clearly.
Maybe it makes sense to have a very low-traffic packaging at gluster.org
mailinglist where all packagers from all distributions are subscribed?
>

+1 , its better to have a ML on packaging and discuss about the
changes/concerns/issues in this area.

--Humble


On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hey Pranith!
>
> Thanks for putting this topic on my radar. Uncommunicated packaging
> changes have indeed been a pain for non-RPM distributions on several
> occasions. We should try to inform other packagers about required
> changes in the packaging scripts or upgrade/installation process better.
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:26:33PM +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113778
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191176
> >
> > How can we make the process of giving good packages for things other than
> > RPMs?
>
> My guess is that we need to announce packaging changes very clearly.
> Maybe it makes sense to have a very low-traffic packaging at gluster.org
> mailinglist where all packagers from all distributions are subscribed?
>
> I've added all packagers that I could track on CC, and am interested in
> their preferences and ideas.
>
> Thanks,
> Niels
>
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