Comment 10 for bug 243828

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:08:22PM -0000, Vladimir Osintsev wrote:
> > I had a follow up discussion on this and the outcome was is it very
> > important to fix this dependency in hardy?
>
> Yes. I am very interested in full support ganeti of Ubuntu, at this
> moment I have a challenge to deploy a cluster using ganeti on 11
> physical servers, as the operating system used Ubuntu Server 8.04.1
>
> Is it possible upgrade ganeti to version 1.2.5 in Hardy? It would be
> excellent to use native ubuntu package for ganeti in Hardy.

Speaking as upstream, at one point there will be other 1.2.x releases
fixing some bugs or adding features. So long-term speaking, I'm not sure
if uploading right 1.2.5 to hardy will help much (with regard to bug
fixes).

But if you want to stay on one version for the lifetime of Hardy, please
don't use anything below 1.2.3 (and yes, ideally 1.2.5).

> > Like ganeti is totally unusable without python-simplejson?
>
> Yes. Without python-simplejson all utilities included in the package
> ganeti completely broken (see LP: #256080).

Indeed, the debian package for 1.2.0 was missing this critical
dependency.

> Is it possible to use ganeti 1.2.5 with Xen 3.2 and DRBD 8.x? On the
> ganeti wiki is that it is possible to use with DRBD 8.x, but in the
> installation instructions it is a question only of the support DRBD 7.x.

No, please don't use 7.x. It's deprecated and ganeti 2.0 will not
support it anymore. DRBD 8.0.7 and 8.0.12 are known to work good.

> A similar question about the version of Xen, in Hardy default Xen 3.2,
> whether to do downgrade to version 3.1?

Ganeti should work with 3.2 (although I personally haven't tested it).

regards,
iustin