[Linux-HA] Where is BasicSanityCheck?

[Michael Alger]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:06:42PM +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> Now that Pacemaker is no longer part of Heartbeat, CRM development has
> been split into two streams (stable and unstable/dev), the packages at
> that location are highly likely to be the best we've produced up to
> that point in time.  As much as we try to prevent it, occasionally a
> regression will slip through, but as a whole they get better and
> better (because they're feature frozen).

Fair enough; that's why we have test environments.

> When you update is entirely up to you and your organization... I
> recommend looking through the changelogs to see if there is anything
> relevant to your configuration.
> Particularly anything labeled with the "High:" prefix

Sounds like a good plan.

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 18:12, Michael Alger <linux-ha at mm.quex.org> wrote:
>>
>> Finally, a more specific question: I'm currently using this package
>> from Debian_Etch/i386 @ the above:
>>
>> 1031100 2008-05-17 02:57 heartbeat_2.1.3-18_i386.deb
>>
>> Looking at the listing now, the 2.1.3-18 package has a modified date
>> of 18-Jul-2008. So I downloaded it again, and get this:
>>
>> 1031094 2008-07-18 21:37 heartbeat_2.1.3-18_i386.deb
>>
>> Clearly the file has been modified (slightly), but the version
>> number remained the same. Is this a common occurrence? I extracted
>> the new .deb but the changelog and changelog.Debian haven't changed.
> 
> Not sure what the first number is, but the debian packages also get
> rebuilt whenever the rpm .spec file is changed.
> Perhaps thats what you're seeing.

The first number (1031100, 1031094) was the file size in bytes, as
output by ls. I extracted both packages and did a recursive diff,
and it found differences in all the gzipped documentation (txt and
man pages). I uncompressed them and tried again, and no differences
were found. Presumably the difference was the timestamp within the
gzip header.

So, I think you're right: the .spec was changed for some reason and
so the packages were rebuilt. Was just a bit worried I couldn't go
by the package version numbers to know when it's been updated, but I
guess I still can. Thanks, Andrew.