<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Hi Maintainers,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Firstly, given the recent push of an alpha release to the EPEL repository I would like to request input on the general principle of using alpha releases in packages. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secondly, my understanding is that the potential actions once a release in the EPEL repository is one of the following:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">1) Remove opendnssec from EPEL for now</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">2) Downgrade 1.4.0a1 to 1.3.x using Epoch:1 and try to downgrade the db</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">3) Leave opendnssec 1.4.0a1 in EPEL</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">The downgrade path for ODS is untested, could have unexpected consequences and involves a change to the Epoch. Therefore (given that the ODS team does not support the use an alpha release in EPEL) I would like to propose that 1) is undertaken. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Paul (as package maintainer) - I believe at this point you still plan on 3?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Any thoughts or suggestions on how to resolve this difference of opinion are gratefully received.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Sara.</div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Sara (Sinodun)" <<a href="mailto:sara@sinodun.com">sara@sinodun.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">12 July 2012 11:51:01 GMT+01:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:opendnssec-user@lists.opendnssec.org">opendnssec-user@lists.opendnssec.org</a>, <a href="mailto:opendnssec-maintainers@lists.opendnssec.org">opendnssec-maintainers@lists.opendnssec.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Paul Wouters <<a href="mailto:paul@nohats.ca">paul@nohats.ca</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[Opendnssec-maintainers] Re: [Opendnssec-user] Warning to all EPEL 6 users (Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS etc) (fwd)</b><br></span></div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Unfortunately an alpha release of 1.4.0 (1.4.0a1) has been pushed to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Fedora 16 / 17 and EPEL 6 stable repositories [1].<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Note these were pushed months ago.<br></blockquote><br>An update on this from the OpenDNSSEC team perspective. <br><br>The decision to push the1.4.0a1 release into EPEL was made<br>by the package maintainer, against the advice of the OpenDNSSEC team. The ODS <br>team does not consider this (or any alpha release) production ready and does not <br>recommend the use of alphas in production environments. A discussion as to how to <br>resolve the disagreement with regard to the version of ODS currently in EPEL is ongoing. <br><br>We encourage users to test alpha releases in controlled test environments and value the <br>feedback we get. We are also very pleased that an effort is underway to include <br>OpenDNSSEC in EPEL. <br><br>However our advice remains that only the official, stable releases should be used in <br>production and we are working towards an official release of 1.4.0.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">An upgrade can be devastating to your system, wipe configurations, so<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I would advise against it until this matter is resolved.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">As rpm never wipes config files, I looked into this and found that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">there is a bug in the opendnssec.spec.in file shipped in trunk:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">%files<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">%defattr(-,opendnssec,opendnssec)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">%config %{_sysconfdir}/opendnssec/*<br></blockquote><br>Unfortunately this file had not been updated in some time and anyone who had used <br>this as the basis of a spec file would indeed have suffered from this issue. In future <br>we will not ship a spec file, but leave it to the expert packager maintainers to develop<br>such files as appropriate to their package. <br><br>Sara. <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Opendnssec-maintainers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Opendnssec-maintainers@lists.opendnssec.org">Opendnssec-maintainers@lists.opendnssec.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.opendnssec.org/mailman/listinfo/opendnssec-maintainers">https://lists.opendnssec.org/mailman/listinfo/opendnssec-maintainers</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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