[Linux-HA] Bugfix release for Heartbeat in old packaging

[Ciro Iriarte]

2008/3/18, Serge Dubrouski <sergeyfd at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Andrew Beekhof <beekhof at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Serge Dubrouski <sergeyfd at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > Hello -
>  >  >
>  >  >  Would it be possible to issue a bugfix release for Heartbeat 2.1.3 in
>  >  >  the old version of packaging, i.e. without Pacmaker as a separate
>  >  >  package?
>  >
>  >  Basically no.
>  >  As indicated back in December, 2.1.3 was the last combined release.
>  >  The CRM from that release is now being maintained as the Pacemaker 0.6
>  >  stable series which has monthly _bug-fix-only_ updates.
>  >
>  >  Even if I wanted to, and the maintenance overhead of back-porting
>  >  everything wasn't a show-stopper, I'm not the one who's allowed to
>  >  authorize a release.
>
>
>
> Then my other questions is:  Who supports current Heartbeat packages
>  suitable for Pacemaker and where I can get sources for them with
>  appropriate .spec files?
>
>  Of course it's not my business, but I think that you guys are badly
>  hurting a whole project. For example Apache officially closed 2.0.XX
>  branch and suggest everybody to move to 2.2.X, but they still issue
>  bugfixes and security patches for that branch. In your case you
>  suggest people to move to 2.1.3, which is known to have some critical
>  bugs. Of course you can suggest to move to Pacemaker + Heartbeat, but
>  packages for such move are available from your site only and you don't
>  have packages for some critical OSes like RHEL 4.0/CentOS 4.0.
>
>
>  --
>
> Serge Dubrouski.

Source for current packages can be retrieved from
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ha-clustering/SLES_10/src/

If you have time and energy to patch the old release, I think (please
correct me if i'm wrong Lars) the source and spec files can be
retrieved from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/LarsMB/SLE_10/src/

Ciro