[Bug 1262712] Re: [SRU] Backport iscsitarget 1.4.20.3+svn490 into Precise

James Page james.page at ubuntu.com
Wed Mar 5 20:38:06 UTC 2014


I'd be happy to support this approach - as Stefan highlights, pretty
much the only stuff landing in both packaging and upstream are bugfixes
so I think the risk for a straight backport is pretty low.

I did some testing on 12.04, 12.10 and 13.10 - as I think we'll want to
backport to all pre 14.04 releases; upgrades from the release/updates
packages worked fine and the dkms modules worked with the 3.11 kernel on
12.04.

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Title:
  [SRU] Backport iscsitarget 1.4.20.3+svn490 into Precise

Status in “iscsitarget” source package in Precise:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Justification:

  Impact: We will be using the Saucy kernel for HW enablement in the
  12.04.4 images. This will again break the DKMS iscsitarget
  compilation.

  Fix: While looking at the required changes to the DKMS source, the
  remainder user-space part of the Saucy version of iscsitarget seemed
  also bugfixes only. So it would make sense to just backport that
  package completely for Precise.

  Testcase:
  - Created a VM running Precise
  - Installed current version of iscsitarget + iscsitarget-dkms
  - Created a file based iscsi target
  - Install open-iscsi and used that to connect locally
  - Upgraded iscsitarget + iscsitarget-dkms to proposed backport version
  - Verified dkms module compiled for Precise kernel
  - Rebooted VM and verified that the dkms module can be loaded and iscsi
    disk is accessible.
  - Installed linux-generic-lts-saucy kernel
  - Verified that dkms module got built and installed
  - Rebooted VM in Saucy kernel and verified that iscsi disk is still usable.

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