Justin Clift
2014-Mar-04 13:35 UTC
[Gluster-users] Is there demand for geo-replication on RHEL/CentOS/SL 5.x?
Hi all, Is anyone interested in having geo-replication work on RHEL/CentOS/SL 5.x? After writing up the instructions for compiling RPMS on RHEL/CentOS/SL 5.x, it turns out geo-replication doesn't work there without extra effort. This is because these older releases of Linux come with Python 2.4, while geo-replication needs Python 2.6 or above. It's fixable, but doesn't seem straightforward. Niels, Kaleb, and I did some initial investigation the other day: * EPEL for Enterprise Linux 5.x *does* have Python 2.6, which geo-rep could use * Just updating the RPM .spec file to insist on Python 2.6 (BuildRequires: python26-devel) doesn't work *However* the problem then is that /usr/bin/python is still the old Python 2.4. It needs to be calling /usr/bin/python26 instead, just for EL5. This could technically be solved, but it adds complexity and could be a real pain to keep maintained over time. (unsure) So, we're wondering if many people care about having geo-replication working for RHEL/CentOS/SL 5.x or not. If there is, then it might be worth the effort. If there's not, then lets just not build geo-rep on EL5 at all or something, and call it a day. ;) Thoughts/ideas/etc? :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- Open Source and Standards @ Red Hat twitter.com/realjustinclift
Justin Clift
2014-Mar-07 19:05 UTC
[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Is there demand for geo-replication on RHEL/CentOS/SL 5.x?
On 04/03/2014, at 1:35 PM, Justin Clift wrote:> Hi all, > > Is anyone interested in having geo-replication work on RHEL/CentOS/SL 5.x?Seems pretty clear there's no demand for geo-replication on EL5, so we'll disable the rpm building of it. Patch to do the disabling is up for review: http://review.gluster.org/#/c/7210/ If anyone's got the time to do code review of it, please do (it's a simple one). :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- Open Source and Standards @ Red Hat twitter.com/realjustinclift