[Pacemaker] Why was SBD removed from the RHEL/CentOS 6 cluster-glue/corosync/pacemaker packages?

Andrew Beekhof andrew at beekhof.net
Sun Jul 29 23:21:11 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:30 AM, mark - pacemaker list
<m+pacemaker at nerdish.us> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> If you're building cluster-glue from source, it builds sbd. However, If you
> install cluster-glue, corosync, and pacemaker from official repos, there is
> no sbd binary.  The deb for cluster-glue in Debian is version 1.0.6 rather
> than 1.0.5 and it has the sbd binary, so has it been decided on the RH side
> to drop sbd?

Red Hat has a policy of not shipping things it doesn't at least plan to support.
Since no final decision had been made, it was judged to be better to
exclude it when the cluster-glue package was first added than to rip
it out after people had started using it.

>  Or did sbd not exist at the time of 1.0.5?  The pacemaker rpm
> contains /usr/share/pacemaker/templates/sbd which seems weird since it's not
> possible to install sbd from the repos, is this just an error in the
> packaging?
>
> Thanks for any insight,
> Mark
>
>
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