++kefu Matt On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:35 AM, kefu chai <tchaikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Nathan Cutler <ncutler@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> my main concern would be the downstream. how shall we accommodate the >>> packaging of downstream? for example, what if the boost package >>> maintainers of SuSE/fedora/debian/ubuntu are not ready to package the >>> boost version we want to use in future? >>> >>> but as long as we don't require newer boost to build, we are safe on >>> debian and ubuntu at this moment. as boost 1.61 is required for >>> building ceph, and both debian unstable and ubuntu artful package >>> boost v1.62. >> >> >> The very latest cutting-edge versions of the distros may ship boost >= 1.61 >> but the stable versions most likely do not. > > yeah. but, IIRC, debian stable does not accepts new packages unless > they contain critical bug fixes. the new packages will go to the > unstable or experimental distribution first. so, presumably, debian > will be fine. guess ubuntu is using similar strategy for including > packages in its LTS distros. > >> >> For luminous we (SUSE) need to support the latest stable versions of >> openSUSE and SLE, i.e. Leap 42.3 and SLE-12-SP3. Both of these come with >> boost 1.54. > > yeah, then we need to package libboost in one way or another. > >> >> Nathan > > > > -- > Regards > Kefu Chai > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- -- Matt Benjamin Red Hat, Inc. 315 West Huron Street, Suite 140A Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103 http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/storage tel. 734-821-5101 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
