[lustre-discuss] rpm names?

[Bass, Ned]

A presentation at LUG 2016 given by Chris Morrone gives some background
on the new packaging conventions.

http://cdn.opensfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/LUG2016D1_Improved-Versioning_Morrone_DiNatale.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50VN9Q7BHYA&index=5&list=PLA5dHg1_l3V8r6eqrUnl8DiB-KH1K5yLH

With the completion of LU-5614 the Lustre rpm packages use weak-updates
so they don't need to be rebuilt when the kernel is updated.

Ned

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lustre-discuss [mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org] On
> Behalf Of Chris Horn
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 11:15 AM
> To: Michael Di Domenico; lustre-discuss
> Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] rpm names?
> 
> That work was done in LU-5614 and some related tickets. I think the one for
> removing the kernel version from the package name was LU-7643.
> 
> Chris Horn
> 
> On 4/21/17, 12:58 PM, "lustre-discuss on behalf of Michael Di Domenico"
> <lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org on behalf of
> mdidomenico4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     i'm confused over the naming change between 2.8 and 2.9, it seems the
>     kernel version has gotten dropped from the rpm filename.
> 
>     but the files inside the rpm are still compiled for a specific kernel,
>     so there's a good chance that kmod-lustre-client will get installed on
>     a machine that does not have a matching kernel to the directory inside
>     the rpm
> 
>     this also means i can't rpmbuild --rebuild the lustre-client src rpm
>     for several different kernels and keep all the files in the same
>     directory.
> 
>     kmod-lustre-client-2.9.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
> 
>     lustre-client-modules-2.8.0-3.10.0_327.3.1.el7.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
>     lustre-client-2.8.0-3.10.0_327.3.1.el7.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
> 
>     i looked back through the mailing list, but i don't see any mention of
>     this change. (i'm not on the lustre developers list)
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