Re: [HTCondor-users] HTCondor 8.8.5 Released

[Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald@xxxxxxxxxx>]

DON'T PANIC ;)

On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 10:40:56 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> When I went through the list of recent updates, I discovered that there are multiple
> instances of the "orig tarball" for Debianish OSes:
> 
> root@deepestthought:/data/amd64/buildpackages.LSC/DOWNLOAD/other/condor-uwisc-pool# find . -name condor_8.8.5.orig.tar.gz -ls
>   1154722  13323 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root     13407196 Sep  5 22:53 ./debian/8.8/stretch/condor_8.8.5.orig.tar.gz
>   1154739  13323 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root     13402006 Sep  5 22:54 ./debian/8.8/buster/condor_8.8.5.orig.tar.gz
> 
> I haven't investigated what might be the differences yet, but this is alarming, in

tmp# diff -ur {stretch,buster}/condor-8.8.5 | less
Only in buster/condor-8.8.5: BUILD-ID
diff -ur stretch/condor-8.8.5/debian/changelog buster/condor-8.8.5/debian/changelog
--- stretch/condor-8.8.5/debian/changelog       2019-09-05 05:43:52.000000000 +0200
+++ buster/condor-8.8.5/debian/changelog        2019-09-05 21:28:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 condor (8.8.5-1) stable; urgency=medium

-  [ Tim Theisen ]
   * Fixed two performance problems on Windows
   * Fixed Java universe on Debian and Ubuntu systems
   * Added two knobs to improve performance on large scale pools
   * Fixed a bug where requesting zero GPUs would require a machine with GPUs
   * HTCondor can now recognize nVidia Volta and Turing GPUs

- -- Slot 1 User <slot1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  Wed, 04 Sep 2019 22:43:52 -0500
+ -- Tim Theisen <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:28:06 -0500

 condor (8.8.4-1) stable; urgency=medium

Only in stretch/condor-8.8.5: .gitignore
Only in stretch/condor-8.8.5: .travis.yml


Not alarming: Some minor, but generally unnecessary, differences.

> Is there a reason / reasonable explanation for the need to have different code bases
> for Buster compared to "anything else"?

There shouldn't be.

I'll take the Stretch/Bionic one for my further work (on arm64, ppc64el, and Jessie
backports) - I'm pretty sure the two "extra" files will be happily ignored.

> Another question: there are two patches provided by the src rpm, aren't those needed
> for Debian (in particular the axis2 one)?

- Steffen