On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcasale@activenetwerx.com wrote:
This seems like duplication of effort with the CentOS people, since they already package DRBD for CentOS 5.x (and it works very well).
No its not, the CentOS packages are no longer maintained...
http://dev.centos.org/testing/ tells me something else (and yes, this time they will go into extras).
Well, it was confusing. When we decided to spend the effort to add kmod-drbd to ELRepo there were a few reasons:
- The lack of updates in the CentOS repository, while a new update is now in testing, a few have been skipped/delayed in the past.
- The infrastructure, team and workflow of the ELRepo project all focuses specifically on kernel modules.
- The opinion at FOSDEM of team-members that CentOS was going to go back to its core-business, and drop additional RPM packages like in CentOS Extras.
So my personal opinion (and I had to convince other team-members) was that we should do this despite the fact that it is a duplication of effort and only if we can provide the same quality as we do with other packages. (Which is exactly why we asked for feedback on this mailinglist !)
We didn't do this out of the blue either, this was also discussed on the centos-devel mailinglist (although with less feedback than I had hoped).
Now, it shouldn't really matter to users whether this is a duplication of effort or not. Users will now have additional choice, if CentOS delays or skips a release, ELRepo might have it available. Everybody wins.
Once again, I didn't want any controversy, we are just looking for CentOS people that are willing to test and provide feedback regarding the ELRepo kmod-drbd packages (preferably on the ELRepo bug-tracker / mailinglist to not cause even more controversy).
Kind regards,