The ceph-deploy git master should be able to handle wheezy/sid jessie/sid
strings now (and anything else following a/b syntax and not raise unless we
have flagged the version for non-support)
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:38 PM, James Harper
<james.har...@bendigoit.com.au>wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:47 PM, James Harper
> > <james.har...@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> ceph-deploy uses Python to detect information for a given platform,
> > >> can you share what this command gives
> > >> as output?
> > >>
> > >> python -c "import platform; print platform.linux_distribution()"
> > >>
> > >
> > > Servers that 'gatherkeys' does work on:
> > > ('debian', '7.1', '')
> > > ('debian', '7.2', '')
> > >
> > > Servers that 'gatherkeys' does not work on:
> > > ('debian', 'jessie/sid', '')
> > > ('debian', 'wheezy/sid', '')
> > >
> > > The computer reporting 'wheezy/sid' is an upgrade from squeeze that may
> > have a few packages in the failed state. Same with the one reporting
> > jessie/sid.
> >
> > Aha, yeah, that is definitely the problem. See, ceph-deploy needs to
> > know *exactly* what distro/release/version combination is dealing with
> > because
> > it uses that to correctly point to the correct repos.
> >
> > "wheezy/sid" would be hard (if not impossible) to correctly determine
> > what it should do.
>
> That makes sense. As per your bug report a helpful error message like
> "Platform is not supported: debian (wheezy/sid)" would have been much more
> useful.
>
> Just for future googlers, the 'wheezy/sid' appears to come from
> /etc/debian_version in 'base-files' which hadn't been updated. Presumably
> it was still as at when wheezy was 'unstable'. Updating the base-files
> package updated the /etc/debian_version file, and 'ceph-deploy gatherkeys'
> now behaves as expected.
>
> I think it would be nice for unstable to be supported though. The ceph
> wheezy packages work just fine on unstable (jessie/sid), so it would be
> nice if ceph-deploy could simply issue a warning and/or disable package
> installation when it cannot determine the OS completely reliably.
>
> Thanks
>
> James
>
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