Ticket #338 (reopened defect)
Consider desupporting more older sysnames
| Reported by: | broder | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | The Distant Future |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | debathena-machtype 10.2 | |
| Upstream bug: |
Description
As part of our two-step program to purge the Debathena AFS sysname list with fire, we're putting off removal of i386_linux24 and i386_rhel3 until IAP so that we have time to warn the locker owners and create the locker maintainer's guide.
This ticket is to pull out that removal as a separate actionable item from #223.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed
- Milestone changed from Summer 2010 (Lucid Deploy) to IAP 2011
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed
- Milestone changed from IAP 2011 to The Distant Future
I'm no longer convinced this is a good idea, because there are more lockers out there than I thought for which i386_linux24 means "stock RHEL 3".
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from new to committed
- Fixed in version set to debathena-machtype 10.2
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from committed to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
i386_linux24 and i386_rhel3 are now dead on things that are Wheezy/Raring? or newer.
comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from closed to reopened
- Resolution fixed deleted
And hey look, with Trusty, we were now over 32 until an emergency punt of Karmic.
We need a better policy here. I proposed that we only support cluster releases and only n-2, modulo i386_rhel4 which is special.
comment:6 Changed 10 years ago by jdreed
Discussed at release-team. Going forward, we will support N..N-2 LTS releases, supported Ubuntu releases, oldstable/stable/unstable debian, and i386_rhel4. That drops our sysname list down to about 16-20 depending on the time of year. Some special cases:
*_ubuntu904 - the first Debathena cluster release.
*_deb40 - the "first" Debathena release. (This is rapidly becoming the i386_rhel4 of the Debathena world, and we should do something about that. Fixes to #1538/#1540 will help with this.
