Re: Ceph status for Wheezy

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On Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
> Hi Laszlo,
> 
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) wrote:
> > Hi Sage,
> > 
> > As previously noted, using leveldb caused some trouble with Ceph could
> > be included in Wheezy or not.
> > I've proposed that the supported architectures should be limited in Ceph
> > and leveldb to the ones the latter supports. I got a release critical
> > bugreport[1] that it should be reversed. Alessio Treglia, the leveldb
> > maintainer in Debian wrote the following:
> > "I'm going to test leveldb on powerpc and then I'll report my results
> > to upstream.
> > Hence I cannot promise it will be ready in time for Wheezy, of course
> > I'll upload a patch as soon as a fix becomes available.".
> > 
> > Upstream was asked[2], noted that it fails on big-endian architectures,
> > but no answer until now.
> > 
> > Then, as it was previously announced, the freeze of Wheezy started some
> > hours ago[3].
> > 
> > Soon, after that Julien Cristau, one of our Release Assistant noted
> > about Ceph doesn't build on all architectures due to leveldb:
> > "Unless this gets fixed we'll have to remove ceph from wheezy. Which
> > means qemu and qemu-kvm need to drop their build-deps on ceph packages.
> > They can always be re-added if/when leveldb/ceph are fixed.".
> > 
> > It seems everything is up to leveldb upstream/maintainer now. It is
> > fixed in time on big-endian machines or the package will be limited to
> > little-endian machines as I wanted to do with Ceph.
> 
> 
> 
> Fingers crossed!
> 
> > But please look into the reason why Ceph fails to build on ia64[4].
> 
> Argh, this looks like a (silly) problem with libatomic-ops-dev. We should 
> have a configure/build option to use the new c++11 atomic types instead; 
> that may be less painful than dealing with it.

This part at least shouldn't take long to get fixed for us; it's already in the Debian bug system and upstream accepted a patch:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679680 
-Greg

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