[Linux-HA] What heartbeat version to install now ?

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 5/15/07, Benjamin Watine <watine at cines.fr> wrote:
> Andrew Beekhof a écrit :
> > On 5/15/07, Benjamin Watine <watine at cines.fr> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I'm about to install Heartbeat on a fresh Debian 4 system, and I was
> >> wondering wich version of heartbeat I should install ?
> >> Some bugs have been corrected since v2.0.8, and I would like to install
> >> these corrections too. So should I install v2.0.8 and apply the patches
> >> that I want, or install the latest development version ?
> >>
> >> If you think there's no major problem installing latest snapshot, where
> >> can I find it ? here ? : http://hg.linux-ha.org/dev/archive/tip.tar.bz2
> >> Any other version to suggest ?
> >
> > A question with a rather unsatisfactory answer I'm afraid.
> >
> > I wouldn't recommend 2.0.8 - both due to its age and some rather
> > unpleasant bugs and memory leaks it contained.
> >
> > But I also wouldn't recommend the latest snapshot either as the lrmd
> > is in a rather sorry state.
> >
> > The link posted by Sam is probably the best bet for pre-built
> > packages.  Otherwise, if one is comfortable with building from
> > scratch, I would use:
> >
> >    http://hg.linux-ha.org/dev/archive/SLE10-SP1.tar.bz2
> >
> > which is what will be going into SLES10, SP1 and was the subject of a
> > respectable amount of testing.
> >
>
> Thank you for your answers. Building from scratch is not a problem, I
> just want the "best" Heartbeat available now. I think I'll use this
> sources. When was it packaged ?

well this is the point, its not been packaged.
its just a version that SUSE did a respectable amount of testing on
and put into SP1.

but the details of when it was committed are here:
   http://hg.linux-ha.org/dev/rev/SLE10-SP1

> Are the latest patches for stonith
> suicide included ?

according to:
   http://hg.linux-ha.org/dev/shortlog/tip
they were made 5 days ago, so unfortunately no