Re: [Rdo-list] Juno EPEL packages

Hello Alan, I think dropping Centos6/RHEL6/OEL6 support at this time is premature (IMHO). I don't think we'll be updating to Centos7 this year and for this reason, I'll be maintaining packages on my side for internal use so... if I can give a little time home to get these packages done for the community while using community build system, it would be awesome and give me the opportunity to learn new stuff. I'm already familiar with build systems (spec files, rpms, signature, Jenkins, etc) so it wouldn't be that much of an effort (I guess). If we don't need python27 it's even better. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Alan Pevec [mailto:apevec@gmail.com] Sent: 12-Jan-15 5:02 AM To: David Hill Cc: rdo-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Re: [Rdo-list] Juno EPEL packages Thanks for stepping up, I've created a trello card for this effort and added initial notes: https://trello.com/c/L0X5bU5s/25-el6-juno-packages Repeating here: * python27 is not there yet in EPEL6 (under review https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829892 ) but it would also require to rebuild ALL python deps as python27-* so not an option * Juno is still python 2.6 compatible so single spec should work (see f21 branch for examples where single spec is used to build all of Fedora/el6/el7 builds of Icehouse There are also benefits (newer kernel/qemu-kvm/libvirt) on EL7 which you should consider also you'll have to make a switch at one point. python27 is still under review, but even if it gets into EPEL7 soon I wouldn't suggest that route (see above) Juno still works with python 2.6, >= Kilo requires python >= 2.7 Supporting py26 where upstream abandoned it would be a fork and RDO strives to be close to upstream. Way forward here would be to check Fedora Rawhide (f22 i.e. master branch) openstack-* specs and add support to build on el6. Also you might want to consider keeping only Compute nodes on EL6 and migrate Controllers to EL7. In that case we would need to maintain only openstack-nova Juno for EL6. Cheers, Alan