I guess for me the more crucial questions should be answered:
1. How can a busted release be taken out of repos (some metadata update I
hope)?
2. Can some fix(es) be added into a test release so they can be accessed
by community and tested / used before next general release is avaialble.
I was thinking about trying to pick some critical backports for internal
build / testing but it is not very simple for everyone. It seems that
shaman has some test builds going on, so may be if a track issue will
mention that build xxxyz contains fixes for ticket 9999 "for testing
purposes only use at your peril", it will allow the community to test the
build and for someone who in need to get to the higher ground quickly.
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:41 AM Janne Johansson <icepic.dz(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Den tis 24 sep. 2019 kl 23:35 skrev David Turner
<drakonstein(a)gmail.com>om>:
At work I haven't had a problem with which version of Ceph is being
installed because we always have local mirrors of the repo that we only
update with the upstream repos when we're ready to test a new version in
our QA environments long before we promote the version for production use.
Problem releases have become more problematic than needed because the
packages were left the default packages after a bug was known because there
was no way to remove them from the repo. People continue to see the upgrade
and grabbing it not realizing it's a busted release. I've only seen that
happen on the ML here, but I personally will not touch a new release for at
least 2 weeks after it's been released even in my testing clusters.
So this solution (having a mirror of your own) then becomes "when should I
run mirror sync" instead of "when should I make an install that pulls
whatever is deemed current in the repo" which might help you but still
would be prone to falling into the same trap, "bad" pgks gets listed as the
latest and hence get installed, regardless of if bad means "has bugs" or
just "installed before announcement is out or before announcement+2 weeks".
The window gets smaller but not zero. 8-/
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