[Linux-ha-dev] 3.0 thoughts

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2008-08-20T11:22:25, Wolfram Schlich <lists at wolfram.schlich.org> wrote:

> * Robert <reg at elconas.de> [2008-08-19 15:38]:
> > When thinking about splitting the packages, I think a seperate RA package 
> > is useful. Most changes are done at the RA level (new versions of supported 
> > applications, bug fixes etc.) and the RA's are very useful for other 
> > cluster managers or homegrown solutions too. The more people use a certain 
> > RA, the more applications and versions will be supported.
> >
> > So a seperate RA package without much dependencies (actually the package 
> > can contain all required ocf dependencies) would be nice.
> 
> Seconded. Nagios has that as well (nagios-plugins package) and it
> is just a good idea anyway.

Yes, that's actually part of the split.

For the STONITH and RA packages, it would also be interesting to turn
the hard requirements for the libraries & packages they have into
"Recommends:" and "Complements:" ...

> I have created something similar: my own heartbeat-scripts package for
> Gentoo that installs custom OCF RAs (into /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/custom)
> and STONITH plugins (into /usr/lib/stonith/plugins/external/custom):

_custom_ is possibly not the best choice of provider name. ;-)

But yes, clearly we hope to have more independently packaged resource
agents one day; it would be so cool if they were instead shipped with
the service package (and not our problem to maintain! ;-). That's a bit
beyond of what we can do with our package layout though.



Regards,
    Lars

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