The ceph-deploy git master should now handle wheezy/sid, jessie/sid combinations now.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Alfredo Deza <alfredo.deza@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Gilles MocellinI think you are right about the unstable releases.
<gilles.mocellin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le 08/01/2014 02:46, Christian Balzer a écrit :
>
>> It is what it is.
>> As in, sid (unstable) and testing are named jessie/sid
>> in /etc/debian_version, including a notebook of mine that has been
>> "sid" (as in /etc/apt/sources.list) for 10 years.
>> This naming convention (next_release/sid) has been in place for at least 2
>> generations, probably longer.
>>
>>> ceph-deploy needs to know what version, release, and codename is
>>> dealing with *exactly* because
>>> it will take decisions based on that information. If your host is just
>>> "sid" I think it should work since the
>>> repo does list it: http://ceph.com/debian/dists/
>>>
>> This may well be, but is doomed to failure, because even if I were to
>> manually edit the version to sid, a future update will eventually revert
>> that change again.
This would only be helpful if we supported unstable versions of Debian
>> The real solution is for ceph-deploy to parse the version correctly, if it
>> indeed is supposed to support unstable and testing.
which afaik we don't.
Maybe a plausible solution would be to allow "codename/sid" users to
be able to install whatever
"codename" is? One of the reasons we are not doing this is because it
could lead into potential
user issues
ceph-deploy uses a Python stdlib module to detect platform information:
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Christian
>
> Hello.
>
> I don't know if ceph-deploy really parse /etc/debian_version, but if it is,
> perhaps it should use instead :
> # lsb_release --codename
import platform
print platform.linux_distribution()
>
> Which shows sid on my desktop, and wheezy on my servers.
>
> On my desktop :
> $ cat /etc/debian_version
> jessie/sid
>
> On my servers :
> # cat /etc/debian_version
> 7.3
>
> I can't test on a testing, I don't know if it will show jessie or sid.
>
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