[Gluster-users] CentOS Storage SIG Repo for 3.8 is behind 3 versions (3.8.5). Is it still being used and can I help?

Kaushal M kshlmster at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 12:44:46 UTC 2017


Thanks for doing this Daryl. The help is appreciated.

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 12:37 AM, Daryl lee <daryllee at ece.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the information.   I'm happy to help provide test repo feedback on an ongoing basis to help things along which I'll do right now.
>
> Niels,
> If you require more or less information please let me know, happy to help.  Thanks for doing the builds!
>
> I deployed GlusterFS v3.8.8 successfully to 5 servers running CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core) here are the results.
>
> 2 GlusterFS clients deployed the following packages:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> glusterfs                                     x86_64               3.8.8-1.el7                                    centos-gluster38-test               509 k
> glusterfs-api                             x86_64               3.8.8-1.el7                                    centos-gluster38-test                89 k
> glusterfs-client-xlators         x86_64               3.8.8-1.el7                                    centos-gluster38-test               781 k
> glusterfs-fuse                          x86_64               3.8.8-1.el7                                    centos-gluster38-test               133 k
> glusterfs-libs                            x86_64               3.8.8-1.el7                                    centos-gluster38-test               378 k
>
> Tests:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Package DOWNLOAD/UPDATE/CLEANUP from repo  - SUCCESS
> Basic FUSE mount RW test to remote GlusterFS volume - SUCCESS
> Boot and basic functionality test of libvirt gfapi based KVM Virtual Machine - SUCCESS
>
>
> 3 GlusterFS Brick/Volume servers running REPLICA 3 ARBITER 1 updated the following packages:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> glusterfs                                    x86_64                     3.8.8-1.el7                         centos-gluster38-test                     509 k
> glusterfs-api                            x86_64                     3.8.8-1.el7                         centos-gluster38-test                      89 k
> glusterfs-cli                              x86_64                     3.8.8-1.el7                         centos-gluster38-test                     182 k
> glusterfs-client-xlators       x86_64                     3.8.8-1.el7                         centos-gluster38-test                     781 k
> glusterfs-fuse                        x86_64                     3.8.8-1.el7                         centos-gluster38-test                     133 k
> glusterfs-libs                           x86_64                     3.8.8-1.el7                         centos-gluster38-test                     378 k
> glusterfs-server                     x86_64                     3.8.8-1.el7                         centos-gluster38-test                     1.4 M
> userspace-rcu                        x86_64                     0.7.16-3.el7                        centos-gluster38-test                      72 k
>
> Tests:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Package DOWNLOAD/UPDATE/CLEANUP from repo - SUCCESS w/ warnings
>     *  warning during updating of glusterfs-server-3.8.8-1.el7.x86_64 backing up gluster .vol files saved to rpmsave.   This is expected.
> Bricks on all 3 servers started - SUCCESS
> Self Healing Daemon on all 3 servers started - SUCCESS
> Bitrot Daemon on all 3 servers started - SUCCESS
> Scrubber Daemon on all 3 servers started - SUCCESS
> First replica self healing - success
> Second replica self healing - success
> Arbiter replica self healing - success
>
>
> -Daryl
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kaushal M [mailto:kshlmster at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 5:03 AM
> To: Daryl lee
> Cc: Pavel Szalbot; gluster-users; Niels de Vos
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] CentOS Storage SIG Repo for 3.8 is behind 3 versions (3.8.5). Is it still being used and can I help?
>
> Packages for 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9 are being built for the Storage SIG.
> Niels is very punctual about building them. The packages first land in the respective testing repositories. If someone verifies that the packages are okay, and gives Niels a heads-up, he pushes the packages to be signed and added to the release repositories.
>
> The only issue is that Niels doesn't get enough (or any) verifications. And the packages linger in testing.
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Pavel Szalbot <pavel.szalbot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, you can install 3.8.7 from centos-gluster38-test using:
>>
>> yum --enablerepo=centos-gluster38-test install glusterfs
>>
>> I am not sure how QA works for CentOS Storage SIG, but 3.8.7 works
>> same as
>> 3.8.5 for me - libvirt gfapi is unfortunately broken, no other
>> problems detected.
>>
>> Btw 3.9 is short term maintenance release
>> (https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2016-September/015197.html).
>>
>>
>> -ps
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Daryl lee <daryllee at ece.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Gluster Community,
>>>
>>> According to the community packages list I get the impression that
>>> 3.8 would be released to the CentOS Storage SIG Repo, but this seems to have
>>> stopped with 3.8.5 and 3.9 is still missing all together.   However, 3.7 is
>>> still being updated and is at 3.7.8 so I am confused why the other
>>> two versions have stopped.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I did some looking on the past posts to this list and found a
>>> conversation about 3.9 on the CentOS repo last year but it looks like
>>> it's still not up yet; possibly due to a lack of community involvement in the testing and
>>> reporting back to whoever the maintainer is (which we don’t know yet)?   I
>>> might be in a position to help since I have a test environment that
>>> mirrors my production environment setup that I would use for testing the patch
>>> anyways, I might as well provide some good to the community..   At this
>>> point I know to do " yum install --enablerepo=centos-gluster38-test
>>> glusterfs-server" but I'm not sure who to tell if it works or not, and what
>>> kind of info they are looking for.    If someone wanted to give me a little
>>> guidance that would be awesome, especially if it will save me from
>>> having to switch to manually downloading packages.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I guess the basic question is do we expect releases to resume for 3.8
>>> on the CentOS Storage SIG repo or should I be looking to move to
>>> manual patching for 3.8.  Additionally, if the person who does the
>>> releases to the CentOS Storage SIG is waiting for someone to tell
>>> them it looks fine,  who should I contact to do so?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Daryl
>>>
>>>
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