I think it's actually a great time to include NIFI 1461 to improve the RPM with a non-root user and group. With respect to backward compatibility, 0.5.0 will also include a fix for NIFI-1454, and I'm skeptical that anyone was successfully using the RPM output from the Maven build before that fix. As part of NIFI-1454, we have changed the name of the RPM from "nifi-assembly" to just "nifi", which I believe would break any upgrade chain.
Suggested text for the migration notes: The RPM distribution has been significantly improved. The name of the RPM is now "nifi". The NiFi RPM installation will now create a "nifi" user and group to own the installed files, while retaining and reusing existing "nifi" users and groups. RPM users should install the RPM as a new package install, rather than an upgrade, and port their configuration and repository data to the new installation. On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Tony Kurc <trk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joe, > We'd need some migration notes changes added 1461. However, it does change > the way the rpm works by a little bit. If people are integrating/deploying > with rpms, it might be a breaking change. > > Tony > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Tony, > > > > It was what appears to have become NIFI-1492 that I personally felt > > was important to get with state management because it will limit the > > amount of state we return back to the client/UI. I am concerned about > > the amount of state ListFile can generate in some cases and I think > > that needs to be solved but it doesn't need to hold up the release. > > > > Also, what do you think about including 1461? It was requested by > > Andre, implemented by Puspendu, validated by James Wing. I've not had > > a chance to go through it yet but that it has such solid community > > effort behind it is a huge plus. Will take a look at that first thing > > tomorrow and provide feedback. > > > > Thanks > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Tony Kurc <trk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've gotten a couple out of band "hold off on the RCs", so I won't be > > > cutting RC2 tonight. > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Tony Kurc <trk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> All, > > >> I'm hoping many of you are trying out the RC1 for functionality and > > >> ideally haven't found any issues beyond those already patched. I was > > >> planning on pulling together an RC2 tonight, so please, if you have > > found > > >> some other critical issues, please bring it up on this dev list. > > >> > > >> Tony > > >> > > >
