[Linux-ha-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Interim heartbeat packages refreshed (2.1.2-4)

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2007-10-01T12:25:15, Max Hofer <max.hofer at apus.co.at> wrote:

> With offical I mean released from the project web page - which means Alan 
> released them - it is the the offical Mercurial there etc.
> 
> With the exception of Novel, all distros use this as reference point. And thus 
> I assume most bug-reports are coming from this release schema.

I doubt it. I'd risk the educated guess that the majority of heartbeat
deployments is on SUSE, and that most users who actually care about
their clusters are using Andrew's releases. (I think horms bases his
Debian packages on them, too.)

> Speaking from this point of view the Novel interim releases do not exist for 
> most users ;-) 

That is the unfortunate problem of those users, and I'm afraid I cannot
change that.


> you (Novell) actually "invented/defined" a new version schema with the email 
> Andrew wrote on the ist ... the X.Y.Z-A.B version is your definition. Since 
> Andrew explained what the schema means I'm fine with that.

We have no choice.

> Here some questions which came up to me when I saw the post:
> - what does the verison schema mean?
> - when is A incereased, when is B increased? 

Those numbers are checkin + rebuild counters of the openSUSE Build
Service, respectively. You shouldn't attach a special meaning to them
except using them for comparison to find out if they were newer.

> - are the interim releases strictly time scheduled (means they come out no 
> mather what the current state of the code is) or are they well tested?

They are tested. If you want daily builds, you can use mine. Be careful,
they might bleed ;-)


Regards,
    Lars

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