[Gluster-Maintainers] Various upgrades are Broken

[Hari Gowtham]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:18 PM Shyam Ranganathan <srangana at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/4/19 7:29 AM, Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan wrote:
> > Thanks for testing this Hari.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 5:42 PM Hari Gowtham <hgowtham at redhat.com
> > <mailto:hgowtham at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     With the patch https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/21838/ the
> >     upgrade from 3.12 to 6, 4.1 to 6 and 5 to 6 is broken.
> >
> >     The above patch is available in release 6 and has been back-ported
> >     to 4.1 and 5.
> >     Though there isn't any release made with this patch on 4.1 and 5, if
> >     made there are a number of scenarios that will fail. Few are mentioned
> >     below:
> >
> >
> > Considering there is no release with this patch in, lets not consider
> > backporting at all.

It has been back-ported to 4 and 5 already.
Regarding 5 we have decided to revert and make the release.
Are we going to revert the patch for 4 or wait for the fix?

>
> Current 5.4 release (yet to be announced and released on the CentOS SIG
> (as testing is pending) *has* the fix. We need to revert it and rebuild
> 5.4, so that we can make the 5.4 release (without the fix).
>
> Hari/Sanju are you folks already on it?

Yes, Sanju is working on the patch.

>
> Shyam


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Regards,
Hari Gowtham.