On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:55:29PM +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The heartbeat download page says > > > > a lot of stuff thats horribly out of date > > Perhaps. But, my CentOS installation does have a yum repository > for 'extras', and that's where I got my initial heartbeat RPM; via > 'yum install heartbeat'. Scouring the internet for alternatives, > when these RPMs seemed canonical for CentOS distributions, didn't > seem wise.
Nod, I was just being a smart-ass :) > > > > They're not randomly rolled :-) > > > > I've organized for them to be automatically "rolled" for about 18 > > different distro versions from a single tarball and spec file. > > I'm also the guy that writes a whole lot of the code you're using - so > > I claim some legitimacy for doing so :-) > > I don't mean 'random' in any derogitory way. But those RPMs are > different than what the heartbeat project distributes... > > > > Incidentally, if you're after RHEL packages, they're also available. Try: > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ha-clustering/RHEL_5/ > or > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ha-clustering/RHEL_4/ > > Cool. Other than this conversation, how would I have learned about > these RPMs? I sent out an announcement on the mailing list about RHEL4 a week or so ago... does that count? > Neither the HA project, nor the CentOS project, ever > mention them... On the contrary :-) Look under "Interim releases for many distributions" on the heartbeat download page. Unfortunately there had been some internal politics that was responsible for them being "de-emphasized". I understand this has been resolved and we'll have a new-and-improved download page "soon". > > > I do note that the RPMs you're directing me to have an altered %pre > > > scriptlet; has that been pushed back to the heartbeat project? > > > > The spec files are totally different. > > This one is based on the one used by SUSE (since that's where I work), > > but have been modified based on consultation with clustering > > colleagues at Red Hat. > > Splendid. :) Why doesn't the source distribution or CentOS's > distribution use them? Only the CentOS guys can answer that question :-) > > I do have to apologize: I realize my end of this conversation sounds > snarky. But: > > - If people keep re-solving the spec file issues for RHEL5 and > CentOS 5, why is the source distribution handing out a broken > spec file? The state of the project spec file and the (fundamentally broken) way it works has been an ongoing issue for a number of years now. However, as above, it looks like we'll be making some progress there soon. _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
