[CASSANDRA-13433] RPM distribution improvements and known issues

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Awaiting Feedback
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Packaging
• Assignee: Stefan Podkowinski
• Reporter: Stefan Podkowinski

Authors

Stefan Podkowinski

• Created: 12/Apr/17 14:28
• Updated: 31/Jul/20 22:23

Description

Starting with CASSANDRA-13252, new releases will be provided as both official RPM and Debian packages. While the Debian packages are already well established with our user base, the RPMs just have been release for the first time and still require some attention.

Feel free to discuss RPM related issues in this ticket and open a sub-task to fill a bug report.

Please note that native systemd support will be implemented with CASSANDRA-13148 and this is not strictly a RPM specific issue. We still intent to offer non-systemd support based on the already working init scripts that we ship. Therefor the first step is to make use of systemd backward compatibility for SysV/LSB scripts, so we can provide RPMs for both systemd and non-systemd environments.

Issue Links

• duplicates: CASSANDRA-13537 Dsitribute rpm version of cassandra +=3.10
• is related to: CASSANDRA-13148 Systemd support for RPM
• is related to: CASSANDRA-13815 RPM package for client tools - cqlsh + nodetool
• is related to: CASSANDRA-15838 Add deb and rpm packaging to artifacts test script
• relates to: CASSANDRA-16001 Log name change required

Sub-Tasks

• Add PID file directive in /etc/init.d/cassandra: Resolved
• Incorrect status check use when stopping Cassandra: Resolved
• Stopping Cassandra shows status "failed" due to non-zero exit status: Open
• Cassandra not a registered systemd service after install: Resolved
• Sign RPM artifacts: Resolved
• RPM Spec - disable binary check, improve readme instructions: Resolved
• RPM Init: don't attempt to start if it's running: Resolved
• RPM Init: Service startup ordering: Resolved
• Cassandra RPM has wrong owner for /usr/share directories: Resolved