[Linux-HA] heartbeat-2.1.3 spec file attempts to re-add hacluster UID under CentOS 5

[Brian Reichert]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:46:04PM +0200, Johan Hoeke wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Seems to me like your gripe should be directed towards the distro's
> (Centos) heartbeat maintainer, not towards the developers.

That is sound advice, but CentOS's spec file is the same as the
heartbeat project's spec file.  Were I to report to CentOS, any
patch developed would be pushed upstream to the HA project, or so
I would hope.

The RPMs shown to me by Andrew Beekhof at opensuse.org were locally
modified; patches were not pushed upstream.

> Here you'll find the latest packages straight from the developers, and
> you can get support straight from the developers as well.

_That_ was precisely my goal; provide feedback directly to the
developers, instead of rediscovering bugs other packagers have found,
and maintaining a bunch of local patches to track a parallel version
of the HA project's packaging.

A secondary goal; encourage others to report packaging bugs.

> (If you use suse, you're in luck, the developer and the maintainer are
> one and the same)

It's folks like him that make me pleased to deal with OSS projects;
he's in the thick of things, trying to provide to the community.
Hopefully I haven't critically irked him with my tone in these
messages...

> That's how I see it anyway.

Thanks for the feedback...

> regards,
> 
> Johan

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