[elrepo] Question about testing repo

[Jack Neely]

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:44:40PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 04/05/12 15:33, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Roy Bonser<rbonser at umich.edu>  wrote:
>>> Would it be possible to have the openafs 1.6.x rpms for el6 moved out of testing into the main repo? I don't have a means of testing the server pieces but have been using the client for several weeks now without issue. I did not see an open bug report for these packages.
>>
>
> I'm not sure what the position is atm with OpenAFS 1.6.x and moving it  
> to the main repo. We currently have 1.4.x in the main repo and I'm not  
> sure how easy it is to migrate from 1.4.x to 1.6.x (I don't use  
> OpenAFS), hence IIRC (but I could be mistaken) the decision was to leave  
> 1.6.x in the testing repo for now.
>
> Hopefully Jake might be able to comment as he oversees OpenAFS at elrepo.
>
>> If anyone is using the 1.6.0 packages for a fileserver, they really
>> should upgrade to 1.6.1 as soon as possible, due to a data corruption
>> bug in 1.6.0.
>> (Read the release notes for 1.6.1 for more details:
>> http://openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.1/RELNOTES-1.6.1 )
>>
>
> Someone please file an issue against kmod-openafs at we'll look to get  
> it updated asap:
>
> http://elrepo.org/bugs
>
> Thanks
>

1.6.0 had a pretty serious bug in the server which is why it never left
testing.  1.6.1 is out now and I need to built that and get that in
testing, it just hasn't happened yet.

Migrating from 1.4.x to 1.6.x isn't too bad, especially for the client.
I've worked my university through that upgrade.

Jack
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