[lxc-devel] Cherry-picking to stable-1.0

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Thu Jun 5 19:20:58 UTC 2014 

On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 15:09 -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 10:10:39AM -0400, Dwight Engen wrote:
> > On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:04:03 -0400
> > "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 17:41 -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 05:32:37PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 15:47 -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > 
> > > > > > I intend to release 1.0.4 next week and am currently going
> > > > > > through all the commits in master which should be included in
> > > > > > the bugfix release.
> > > > > 
> > > > > "Next week" came and passed but we've all been busy (especially
> > > > > you). Any time frame on this?  I'm trying to position the Fedora
> > > > > Project to move on 1.0.4 as soon as it releases and I'm walking
> > > > > down their bugzilla list now.
> > > 
> > > > I'm slowly going through
> > > > https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues?milestone=7&page=1&state=open
> > > > figuring out what we actually want fixed and what should be
> > > > postponed.
> > > 
> > > > But things are starting to look good, I'm back home and so there's a
> > > > good chance we'll have this out the door in the next week or so.
> > > 
> > > > > Will the startup initscript and lxc-autostarat changes that
> > > > > Dwight and I worked out make it into 1.0.4 at this point?
> > > 
> > > > I didn't plan on including it as it felt a bit much for a stable
> > > > release update though I didn't spend much time thinking about it
> > > > and maybe it's fine after all. If you'd like it, I can give it some
> > > > more thoughts and see exactly what bits may be controversial in
> > > > there (potential breakage to existing setups mostly).
> > 
> > I understand about not wanting to break existing stuff, and I haven't
> > thought hard about that but I would like to point out that the systemd
> > unit file we shipped before was broken as what it pointed to didn't
> > exist, so that part certainly seems like a worthwhile fix for stable.

> Ok, so I just had a quick look and the change from master won't apply
> cleanly anyway because we don't have the --ignore-auto/-A option in
> stable's lxc-autostart.

Ewww...  That affects the init scripts since they use "-a -A" in the
shutdown stanza.

I've just been working from master.  What branch do you want this
against (since most of the relevant code is mine)?

Mike

> I agree that in systemd's case, things can't really be much worse
> compared to what we currently have in stable, so I'm fine with applying
> the change in that regard. On the sysvinit/upstart side, the change
> won't cause any user visible change of behaviour unless the user was
> using "onboot" already for something else (doubtful).

> So while I'm not thrilled getting that kind of big changeset into
> stable, it's doable and I'll apply it if someone can get me a version of
> the change which actually applies.
> 
> > > I tried pretty much to go out of my way to insure it wouldn't break
> > > any pre-existing setup.  The only thing where that might be
> > > questionable is if someone was already doing something weird with
> > > groups but, even then, the startup behavior had been only the NULL
> > > group before and now is configurable.
> > > 
> > > I'm pretty happy with it and Dwight seems pretty happy with it.  I
> > > have it in production now.  I'd personally like to see it show up in
> > > the next iteration of the Fedora package, which I may now have a hand
> > > in...
> > > 
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Mike
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Mike
> > > 
> > > > > > Most of them applied cleanly except for two:
> > > > > >  - [PATCH] Convert punctuation marks in Japanese man pages
> > > > > >    This one we thought was identical for both branches, this
> > > > > > turned out to be wrong, so instead of cherry-picking from
> > > > > > master, I applied the one from the stable-1.0 pull request I
> > > > > > was sent.
> > > > > >  - [PATCH] lxc-oracle: fix warnings/errors from some rpm
> > > > > > scriptlets This one fails to apply on current stable-1.0,
> > > > > > probably because of the changes done to the Oracle template to
> > > > > > support installing from media. If those fixes should be
> > > > > > backported to stable, I'd appreciate receiving a separate patch
> > > > > > for that.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I've also gone through all the patches that have been stacking
> > > > > > in my mailbox, at the moment, the only unreviewed patches in
> > > > > > there are the menuconfig change. If you submitted something
> > > > > > else and it's not in master now, please re-send.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > > 
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