[LU-8073] Eliminate lustre-source rpm package

• Type: Technical task
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.9.0
• Labels: patch
• Assignee: Dmitry Eremin (Inactive)
• Reporter: Christopher Morrone (Inactive)

Description

The lustre-source rpm package should probably be eliminated. I'm not entirely clear on why it ever existed though.

The canonical Lustre tarball contains the full Lustre source code, and in the rpm world the .src.rpm file contains the canonical tarball. Also, the full source code probably also appears incidentally in the lustre-debuginfo package.

So it is not clear to me why we also need a binary rpm that contains the lustre source code. Maybe there was a reason in the past, but I am guessing that it is lost to history. We should just remove the package now.

Comments

[James A Simmons]

The patch has landed to remove the lustre-source rpm package. We can close this ticket now.

[Gerrit Updater]

Oleg Drokin ([e-mail]) merged in patch http://review.whamcloud.com/19806/
Subject: LU-8073 build: Eliminate lustre-source binary package
Project: fs/lustre-release
Branch: master
Current Patch Set:
Commit: 75f01f8bdff757a89c80aa4f0cc61608b9ff56e5

[Brian Murrell (Inactive)]

I can't remember that far back specifically, but I would probably just chalk it up to historical reasons. We might have wanted to provide a package of source for people who don't really understand RPM packaging and therefore know that the source tarball is in the SRPM.

[Andreas Dilger]

Brian, do you recall why we had the separate lustre-source RPM instead of using .src.rpm?

[Joseph Gmitter (Inactive)]

Hi Dmitry,
Can you have a look at this one as well?
Thanks.
Joe

[Gerrit Updater]

Christopher J. Morrone ([e-mail]) uploaded a new patch: http://review.whamcloud.com/19806
Subject: LU-8073 build: Eliminate lustre-source binary package
Project: fs/lustre-release
Branch: master
Current Patch Set: 1
Commit: f431f2c046d7529a9388517c4c535406705ac6ca