From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nathan Cutler Subject: Re: increasingly large packages and longer build times Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:27:54 +0200 Message-ID: <71c7b782-6d7e-1e06-e889-bbbf9004ebfe@suse.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:37361 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932126AbdHVI14 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2017 04:27:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: kefu chai , Gregory Farnum Cc: ceph-devel , Alfredo Deza , Ken Dreyer > my main concern would be the downstream. how shall we accommodate the > packaging of downstream? for example, what if the boost package > maintainers of SuSE/fedora/debian/ubuntu are not ready to package the > boost version we want to use in future? > > but as long as we don't require newer boost to build, we are safe on > debian and ubuntu at this moment. as boost 1.61 is required for > building ceph, and both debian unstable and ubuntu artful package > boost v1.62. The very latest cutting-edge versions of the distros may ship boost >= 1.61 but the stable versions most likely do not. For luminous we (SUSE) need to support the latest stable versions of openSUSE and SLE, i.e. Leap 42.3 and SLE-12-SP3. Both of these come with boost 1.54. Nathan