[Gluster-Maintainers] Various upgrades are Broken

[Shyam Ranganathan]

On 3/4/19 8:09 AM, Hari Gowtham wrote:
> 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?

Release-4.1 next minor release is slated for week of 20th March, 2019.
Hence, we have time to get the fix in place, but before that I would
revert it anyway, so that tracking need not bother with possible late
arrival of 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.

Thank you!

> 
>>
>> Shyam
> 
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