On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Chip Childers
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:30 PM, David Nalley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Alex Huang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: David Nalley [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 6:07 PM
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: [ASF40][QA] AWSAPI packging remarks
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Chip Childers <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Frank Zhang <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Not being a packaging guy, I don't have a strong opinion about this 
>>>> >>> issue.
>>>> >>> However, is the consensus that we have enough of a problem here that
>>>> >>> it needs to be addressed prior to a release?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Personally I think it needn't.
>>>> >> And I even  think awsapi should be a separate project, though this is
>>>> >> little off topic
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks Frank...
>>>> >
>>>> > Any other opinions?
>>>> >
>>>> > Anyone want to take a crack at resolving the AWS API packaging issue?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Frank:
>>>>
>>>> My question is what's the next version impact of leaving things like the
>>>> awsapi/client %post symlinks in place? Even if we correct this in 4.next - 
>>>> will
>>>> this clean up cleanly? I will try and look at ascertain what the impact is
>>>> tomorrow, but am happy to have someone beat me to it. If it is something
>>>> that has little or no impact I am happy for us to just file bugs. If it 
>>>> ends up
>>>> being ugly, we should fix it before we try and release.
>>>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> This is actually in current versions of CloudStack so, unlike the 
>>> /cloud/agent symlink, it's not something new created due to 4.0 release.  
>>> Because it's in previous versions of CloudStack, we have to cleanup anyways 
>>> if we decide not to use this "hack".  And removing it would mean we need to 
>>> add in code now to cleanup previous versions of links.  I think it's better 
>>> to file a bug and QA the proper cleanup and deploy in the next release.
>>>
>>> --Alex
>>
>>
>> Yeah - I don't think it's so awful that it hurts us, but it does point
>> to a problem in the AWSAPI code that we are getting around with a
>> packaging hack.
>> I filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-293 to deal
>> with this in 4.1 as I am worried that the changes will cause more
>> uncertainty and potential problems than 'fixing it' at this stage in
>> the release cycle.
>>
>> --David
>>
>
> Two things:
>
> How about Wido's remark about us not packaging for Debian?

Created Cloudstack-294

>
> And Frank noted that there are some steps that need to be documented.
> Do we have a bug opened for the DOC team on them?

CloudStack-295

--David

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