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

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 19.02.2015 um 10:06 schrieb 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 
> <mailto: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.

With my Debian glusterfs maintainer hat on, also: +1

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