Bug 791283 - [RFE] Oz should automatically support new OS releases unless a special case is needed
Summary: [RFE] Oz should automatically support new OS releases unless a special case i...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: CloudForms Cloud Engine
Classification: Retired
Component: oz
Version: 1.0.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
Assignee: Ian McLeod
QA Contact: Dave Johnson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-16 16:27 UTC by Brad P. Crochet
Modified: 2020-03-27 18:39 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2020-03-27 18:39:28 UTC


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Description Brad P. Crochet 2012-02-16 16:27:25 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently, Oz requires an update any time a new OS minor version is released.

Perhaps instead of enabling each release individually, the ones that need a special case should be handled as needed? And handle the others with sane defaults? I think that would make for less (unnecessary) updates to Oz, and allow testing to occur easily ahead of time to find out if something does indeed need to be a special case.                        

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
oz-0.8.0-4.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As of now, try to install RHEL 5.8. It fails.

Comment 1 wes hayutin 2012-02-16 16:30:19 UTC
With the exception of EC2 which requires an errata update to the jeos image rpms.

We need to be able to qualify upcoming releases of RHEL as a client in cloud forms. So we're hoping that private providers like vsphere and rhevm can build upcoming releases.

Thanks

Comment 2 wes hayutin 2012-02-22 23:46:59 UTC
moving version to 1.0.0 .  version = found in version

Comment 4 Hugh Brock 2012-02-27 17:20:16 UTC
Ian, can you comment please? Wes is suggesting that an errata should only be required to build RHEL for public providers. If this is easy, please dev-ack and fix; if not please move to 1.1.0.

Comment 5 Hugh Brock 2012-03-07 18:20:23 UTC
Moving to 1.1.0.

Comment 6 Mike Orazi 2012-08-09 15:31:38 UTC
Moving to 2.0.0? for consideration.

Comment 7 Chris Lalancette 2012-08-20 13:00:14 UTC
I agree that having to update Oz for every minor release isn't ideal.  The reason we have to update Oz for every Fedora release is that anaconda frequently makes backwards-incompatible changes that require code changes.

For RHEL, this is much less of a worry.  In fact, as it currently stands I have no known cases of RHEL breaking anaconda within a stable release series.  I would certainly accept patches that made this "just work" for RHEL, without any further Oz updates.

Chris


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