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On 20 April 2016 at 05:44, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Michał Jastrzębski's message of 2016-04-18 10:29:20 -0700:
>> What I meant is if you have liberty Nova and liberty Cinder, and you
>> want to upgrade Nova to Mitaka, you also upgrade Oslo to Mitaka and
>> Cinder which was liberty either needs to be upgraded or is broken,
>> therefore during upgrade you need to do cinder and nova at the same
>> time. DB can be snapshotted for rollbacks.
>>
>
> If we're breaking backward compatibility even across one release, that
> is a bug.  You should be able to run Liberty components with Mitaka
> Libraries. Unfortunately, the testing matrix for all of the combinations
> is huge and nobody is suggesting we try to solve that equation.

Sadly no: we don't make that guarantee today. I think we should, but
there isn't consensus - at least amongst the folk that have been
debating the backwards compat for libraries spec - that it is actually
*desirable*. Please, come to the session and help build consensus in
Austin :).

> However, to the point of distros: partial upgrades is not the model distro
> packages work under. They upgrade what they can, whether they're a rolling
> release, or 7 year cycle LTS's. When the operator says "give me the new
> release", the packages that can be upgraded, will be upgraded. And if
> Mitaka Nova is depending on something outside the upper constraints in
> another package on the system, the distro will just hold Nova back.

And presumably all of OpenStack.

-Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hpe.com>
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