On Wed, 30 Oct 2024, 07:40 Richard Purdie, <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 2024-10-25 at 07:08 +0200, Marta Rybczynska wrote:
> > To make a summary, this patch did not solve the issue on master, it
> > was the change of the database path that did.
>
> Originally, I couldn't isolate the change to tell or not. Now, by
> changing the database path we've shown the issue is occurring on the
> branches without the patch.
>
> >  Is this correct? And we still do not know what the cause is? So,
> > when we change the path on all branches, the issue is likely to come
> > back ?
>
> I think if we move the database operations to the local filesystem and
> out of DL_DIR, we're likely to stop seeing the issues. We know they're
> isolated to something about the older releases.
>
> > My problem with this patch is that it changes names of variables that
> > are in use. It should at least not fail silently for people who
> > decide to use a pinned database.
> >
> > Do you see another solution than renaming the _DLDIR_ version to the
> > old name?
>
> We either backport the patch as is and have the same functionality
> across the branches, or we do some special version of the patch for the
> LTS branches. In many ways I think it might be better to have things
> consistent rather than doing something special with all the confusion
> that can cause, even if people do have to actively adapt to the change.
>

Well, I'm not happy with a change of variables in existing releases.
However the split would be complicated either way.

And as a bonus, I'm not able to reproduce on my systems (the lack of NFS
might be a factor).

So, I'll say go for this backport even if unhappy with it.

Kind regards,
Marta

>
>
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