Well, Debian used to be supported, so it shouldn't be more work than in the pre-Mimic days ;) I was mainly interested in "release" builds, especially for the upcoming Nautilus 14.1.x rc packages Paul -- Paul Emmerich Looking for help with your Ceph cluster? Contact us at https://croit.io croit GmbH Freseniusstr. 31h 81247 München www.croit.io Tel: +49 89 1896585 90 On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 7:05 PM Alfredo Deza <adeza@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:03 PM Paul Emmerich <paul.emmerich@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > can we re-enable Debian builds for Mimic and Nautilus using Debian 10 Buster? > > Do you mean for development builds or releases? > > > Buster is currently going through the freeze process: > > https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html (Hard freeze in 6 > > weeks) > > > > Despite not being out yet it's easy to install and upgrade to Buster > > and it comes with the necessary gcc version for Ceph. > > > > Would be nice to have some packages available for testing to catch any > > problems early before Buster is released. > > > > Can we help with this in any way? We'll probably do our own Buster > > builds in the coming weeks, some early experiments showed a minor > > problem with the libcurl version that also appeared on Ubuntu > > somewhere IIRC. > > The problem here is that for dev builds, it is an exponential cost, > every dev build already produces 6 repos: > > * CentOS 7 - default > * CentOS 7 - notcmalloc > * Xenial - default > * Xenial - notcmalloc > * Bionic - default > * Bionic - notcmalloc > > The amount of resources needed for another variation spans different > systems and although the infrastructure would not have a problem > building them, it would put a strain on it. I don't think there are > any tests in the Ceph QA suite that would benefit from it either. > > For releases it is a bit different, it would take updating the jobs in > https://github.com/ceph/ceph-build/ (ceph, ceph-setup, ceph-build), > and including 'buster' > in the list of distros to combine when creating repos: > https://github.com/ceph/chacra/blob/master/deploy/playbooks/roles/common/templates/prod.py.j2#L273 > > One of the recurring issues is that since there aren't any tests > against Debian packages/repos for Ceph, nobody catches issues until > release time which causes > delays until the issue can be investigated and resolved. Sometimes the > fixes involve actual code changes in the Ceph repo, which requires > another round of QA > before it can be approved. > > I know I'm not really answering your question here, but just trying to > clarify how tricky it is to include another distro. > > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > > -- > > Paul Emmerich > > > > croit GmbH > > Freseniusstr. 31h > > 81247 München > > www.croit.io > > Tel: +49 89 1896585 90
