[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Important: Debian and Ubuntu packages are changing

[Kaleb Keithley]

*On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 4:56 PM Ingo Fischer <ingo at fischer-ka.de> wrote:

> Hi Kaleb,
>
> I'm currently experiencing this issue while trying to upgrade my Proxmox
> servers where gluster is installed too.
>
> Thank you for the official information for the community, but what
> exactly do this mean?
>
> Will upgrades from 5.8 to 5.9 work or what exactly needs to be done in
> order to get the update done?
>

I expect they will work as well as updating from, e.g., gluster's old style
glusterfs_5.4 debs to debian's new style glusterfs_5.5 debs.  IOW probably
not very well. My guess is that you will probably need to uninstall 5.8
followed by installing 5.9.

Here at Red Hat, as one might guess, we don't use a lot of Debian or
Ubuntu. My experience with Debian and Ubuntu has been limited to building
the packages. (FWIW, in a previous job I used SLES and OpenSuSE, and before
that I used Slackware.)

These are "community" packages and they're free. I personally do feel like
the community really should shoulder some of the burden to test them and
report any problems. Give them a try. Let us know what does or doesn't
work. And send PRs.

Debian Stretch is not affected?
>

TL;DNR: if it was, I would have said so. ;-)

The Debian packager didn't change the packaging on stretch or bionic and
xenial. The gluster community packages for those distributions are the same
as they've always been.



>
> Thank you for additional information
>
> Ingo
>
> Am 07.08.19 um 19:38 schrieb Kaleb Keithley:
> > *TL;DNR: *updates from glusterfs-5.8 to glusterfs-5.9 and from
> > glusterfs-6.4 to glusterfs-6.5, — using the package repos on
> > https://download.gluster.org  or the Gluster PPA on Launchpad— on
> > buster, bullseye/sid, and some Ubuntu releases may not work, or may not
> > work smoothly. Consider yourself warned. Plan accordingly.
> >
> > *Longer Answer*: updates from glusterfs-5.8 to glusterfs-5.9 and from
> > glusterfs-6.4 to glusterfs-6.5, — using the package repos on
> > https://download.gluster.org or the Gluster PPA on Launchpad — on
> > buster, bullseye, and some Ubuntu releases may not work, or may not work
> > smoothly.
> >
> > *Why*: The original packaging bits were contributed by the Debian
> > maintainer of GlusterFS. For those that know Debian packaging, these did
> > not follow normal Debian packaging conventions and best practices.
> > Recently — for some definition of recent —  the powers that be in Debian
> > apparentl insisted that the packaging actually start to follow the
> > conventions and best practices, and the packaging bits were rewritten
> > for Debian. The only problem is that nobody bothered to notify the
> > Gluster Community that this was happening. Nor did they send their new
> > bits to GlusterFS. We were left to find out about it the hard way.
> >
> > *The Issue*: people who have used the packages from
> > https://download.gluster.org are experiencing issues updating other
> > software that depends on glusterfs.
> >
> > *The Change*: Gluster Community packages will now be built using
> > packaging bits derived from the Debian packaging bits, which now follow
> > Debian packaging conventions and best practices.
> >
> > *Conclusion*: This may be painful, but it's better in the long run for
> > everyone. The volunteers who generously build packages in their copious
> > spare time for the community appreciate your patience and understanding.
> >
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