[gluster-packaging] [Gluster-Maintainers] Release 4.0: Releasing client bits for CentOS6

[Niels de Vos]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 09:48:09AM -0500, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> On 01/31/2018 09:42 AM, Niels de Vos wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 09:13:26AM -0500, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> >> On 01/31/2018 09:02 AM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> In the gluster maintainers meeting last week, one of the topics touched
> >>> upon was, should we build CentOS6 client packages for 4.0?
> >>>
> >>> The reasoning being, upgrading servers to 4.0 requires moving from
> >>> CentOS6 (for installations on this base OS version) to CentOS7 and then
> >>> moving to 4.0 bits on CentOS7.
> >>>
> >>> The same across clients would be further tedious.
> >>>
> >>> As a result (and based on glusterd2 not being a part of the client
> >>> packages), should we build and release CentOS6 client packages for 4.0
> >>> via the CentOS Storage SIG?
> >>>
> >>> This does not mean we run regression tests using CentOS6 clients, like
> >>> we never ran using CentOS7 bits in our regressions till date.
> >>>
> >>> Packaging team, thoughts? and what would it take to make it happen? If
> >>> agreed upon can it be done for RC0 itself?
> >>
> >> Since glusterd2 looks like it will be packaged separate from glusterfs
> >> we can probably continue to build and distribute glusterfs for el6 from
> >> the CentOS Storage SIG.
> > 
> > This can easily be done if there would be a --without-server ./configure
> > option. At the moment that does not exist yet, so I prefer to wait with
> > building the packages for CentOS-6 (otherwise users will likely expect
> > to see glusterfs-server around).
> 
> So this can be done for RC1 then?

Yes, I think that can be done. Bug 1074947 exists for a long time
already, I've assigned it to myself now and an updated patch will get
posted for review soon.

Niels