[openstack-dev] [Neutron] Not support dnsmasq < 2.63?

Kyle Mestery mestery at mestery.com
Wed Jul 30 02:00:28 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Xuhan Peng <pengxuhan at gmail.com> wrote:
> We bumped the minimum version of dnsmasq to 2.63 a while ago by this code
> change:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/105378/
>
> However, currently we still "kind of" support earlier version of dnsmasq
> because we only give a warning and don't exit the program when we find
> dnsmasq version is less than the minimum version. This causes some confusion
> and complicates the code since we need to take care different syntax of
> dnsmasq of different version in dhcp code (Note that the previous version
> doesn't support tag).
>
> I wonder what's your opinion on NOT supporting dnsmasq version less than
> 2.63 in Juno? I think we can prompt error message and exit the program when
> we detect invalid version but I would like to gather more thoughts on this
> one.
>
I'm personally ok with this hard limit, but I'd really like to hear
from distribution people here to understand their thoughts, including
what versions of dnsmasq ship with their products and how this would
affect them.

Thanks,
Kyle

> Thanks,
> Xu Han
>
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