At Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:10:09 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------------- > > On Jan 31, 2008, at 12:38 AM, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > > On 2008-01-31T08:24:08, Tadashiro Yoshida <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > > If one followed your scenario to it's logical conclusion, then the > SUSE and Red Hat DVD's would contain a single rpm package containing > the complete distribution. > Clearly this is not the case and for good reason. > > What we are doing here is hardly without precedent. You may have > heard of the X11 project that did a similar thing. > If they can get by without a monolithic package, then I'm sure we can > too. > > > Pacemaker does not belong to or in Heartbeat. Neither is Heartbeat > the only cluster stack that will be using Pacemaker. > > A combined package is not only unnecessary but also utterly > inappropriate.
That's true. There are no definite conventions and rules how each software module should be divided. It depends on the product and project. What I said is just my expectation for Heartbeat. > > > >>> openSUSE's Build Service is just that: it provides a build > >>> environment > >>> for all distributions, not just openSUSE. RedHat, RHEL, CentOS, > >>> Debian, > >>> Ubuntu, Fedora, and by coincidence openSUSE/SLES as well ;-) > >> Do you mean you could accept any modification even if some troubles > >> are found in another distribution other than openSUSE? > > > > Certainly! We already do that today; always have, always will. I don't > > think we have ever refused a bug on any distribution. > > Just to emphasis this point, if one looks through the mail archives, > you will find we have a long history of going out of our way to > accommodate not only other Linux distributions, but other > _operating_systems_ as well. I for one do most of my development work > on Darwin. > > The fact that we have non-SUSE packages for OpenAIS, Heartbeat and > Pacemaker on the build service should underline our commitment to > supporting those parts of the community that do not run SUSE products. > What I would like to say is that we might have another target of package for testing. ;-) Regards, Tadashiro Yoshida _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
