[Openstack-operators] Fwd: Patching openstack

G Spot gspot.afdb at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 19:29:35 UTC 2015


Thanks Mathieu Gagné, got some idea.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Mathieu Gagné <mgagne at internap.com> wrote:

> On 2015-09-16 3:00 PM, Edgar Magana wrote:
> > Do not do that!!!
> >
> > Fix the bug upstream and then back port your commit.
> >
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute
> > http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html
> >
>
> I think he is referring to the "What packages does this deployment size
> use?" question from "Packaging" section found in the User Survey [1].
>
> Operators and deployers will often package their own versions to get
> bugfixes or features more quickly than the upstream package can do. (See
> results for the "If you have modified packages or have built your own
> packages, why?")
>
> Unfortunately the packaging and patching process isn't a turn-key
> solution. Each operators developed their own. Some open-sourced their
> solution [2][3] which might or not answer your needs. This explains why
> we are still having "Packaging" sessions in the OpenStack Ops Meetup.
>
> We use a manual process with imply importing and forking Ubuntu packages
> and applying our own patches in debian/patches. The packages are then
> built and published by Jenkins.
>
> [1]
>
> http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-users-share-how-their-deployments-stack-up
> [2] https://github.com/blueboxgroup/giftwrap
> [3] https://github.com/rconradharris/ply
>
> --
> Mathieu
>
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