Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-12-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On 10/07/2014 03:54 PM, Jerome Martin wrote: On 10/07/2014 12:21 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2014 03:49 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Okay!! Thanks to both of you. I will prepare something next week. My only request is if (other) users can test it in time. By the way,

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-12-17 Thread Chris Boot
On 17 Dec 2014, at 13:56, Ritesh Raj Sarraf r...@debian.org wrote: On 10/07/2014 03:54 PM, Jerome Martin wrote: On 10/07/2014 12:21 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2014 03:49 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Okay!! Thanks to both of you. I will prepare something next

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-12-17 Thread Chris Boot
On 17 Dec 2014, at 21:11, Chris Boot bo...@bootc.net wrote: On 17 Dec 2014, at 13:56, Ritesh Raj Sarraf r...@debian.org wrote: On 10/07/2014 03:54 PM, Jerome Martin wrote: On 10/07/2014 12:21 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2014 03:49 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-12-17 Thread Jerome Martin
Thanks Chris, I'll take a look at it in the coming days! Best, -- Jerome On 12/17/2014 11:03 PM, Chris Boot wrote: On 17 Dec 2014, at 21:11, Chris Boot bo...@bootc.net wrote: On 17 Dec 2014, at 13:56, Ritesh Raj Sarraf r...@debian.org wrote: On 10/07/2014 03:54 PM, Jerome Martin wrote:

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-12-15 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Control: severity -1 serious This is a regression, and breaks upgrading systems using targetcli for storage. It's RC. /release-team-hat -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R:

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-12-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Control: tag -1 help Right now I'm occupied with personal commitments. If anyone is willing to help, please do. NMUs welcome too. If you'd like to co-maintain, please send me a request on Alioth. https://alioth.debian.org/projects/linux-target There are 2 parts to this bug. 1. Upgrade issues. I

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-11-16 Thread Chris Boot
[ adding CCs I missed when I replied ] On 5 Nov 2014, at 09:55, Ritesh Raj Sarraf r...@researchut.com wrote: Hello Chris, On 10/08/2014 01:09 AM, Chris Boot wrote: I won't reset it, but the bug report covered other points that make targetcli unusable for me at the moment even ignoring

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-11-16 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On 11/16/2014 04:02 PM, Chris Boot wrote: Hi Ritesh, Things do indeed seem better now, but still not quite right… Leaving my existing configuration loaded (by manually preventing the lio-utils postrm script from stopping the targets) and upgrading targetcli gives me the following now

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-11-05 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello Chris, On 10/08/2014 01:09 AM, Chris Boot wrote: I won't reset it, but the bug report covered other points that make targetcli unusable for me at the moment even ignoring the upgrade issue. I will try to resolve all the major issues. But I am not going to be looking into the upgrade

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-10-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Control: severity -1 important @Chris: Are you okay if I downgrade this? With severity grave it will be a candidate for removal. I understand the data loss situation during upgrades, but for users deploying it fresh, it is a non-issue. Please reset to grave if you disagree. My intent is to

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-10-07 Thread Jerome Martin
Hi Chris et al., On 10/05/2014 05:45 PM, Chris Boot wrote: From my perspective, it would be nice to keep the old tcm_node and lio_node tools around. I know that they are deprecated but there are a lot of tools around that rely on them. Do you have any particular examples of such tools? Are

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-10-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Okay!! Thanks to both of you. I will prepare something next week. My only request is if (other) users can test it in time. On Tuesday 07 October 2014 03:32 PM, Jerome Martin wrote: Hi Chris et al., On 10/05/2014 05:45 PM, Chris Boot wrote: From my perspective, it would be nice to keep the

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-10-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Tuesday 07 October 2014 03:49 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Okay!! Thanks to both of you. I will prepare something next week. My only request is if (other) users can test it in time. By the way, Jerome, do you still plan on a newer release of the LIO stack ? Or is this, the one I pushed to

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-10-07 Thread Jerome Martin
On 10/07/2014 12:21 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2014 03:49 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Okay!! Thanks to both of you. I will prepare something next week. My only request is if (other) users can test it in time. By the way, Jerome, do you still plan on a newer release

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-10-07 Thread Chris Boot
On 07/10/2014 10:19, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Control: severity -1 important @Chris: Are you okay if I downgrade this? With severity grave it will be a candidate for removal. I understand the data loss situation during upgrades, but for users deploying it fresh, it is a non-issue.

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-10-05 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Thanks for the bug report. Jerome: How can we ensure to have the old 2.x settings / targets in 3.x ? On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:00 PM, Chris Boot wrote: Package: targetcli Version: 3.0+git0.7e32595e-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, The upgrade

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-10-05 Thread Jerome Martin
On 10/05/2014 09:37 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Thanks for the bug report. Jerome: How can we ensure to have the old 2.x settings / targets in 3.x ? Manually, this is easy. But to automate package upgrade is bit of a brain-twister. I haven't found yet a good way to do it. Basically, the

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-10-05 Thread Jerome Martin
One more thought... I think the Debian way would be to have a transition package containing lio-utils, and modify the initscript to account for it. The initscript would check on first start if we are in an upgrade scenario (no new config, an old lio-utils config present), invoke the

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-10-05 Thread Chris Boot
Hi, From my perspective, it would be nice to keep the old tcm_node and lio_node tools around. I know that they are deprecated but there are a lot of tools around that rely on them. The migration from the lio-utils to targetcli startup scripts could possibly be done by removing the init script

Bug#764005: targetcli: Upgrade issues from 2.1-1

2014-10-04 Thread Chris Boot
Package: targetcli Version: 3.0+git0.7e32595e-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, The upgrade from targetcli 2.1-1 removes all targets and makes targetcli unusable. 1. Removing lio-utils disables/removes all targets from the kernel. This is a serious