'Legacy' pacemaker plugins provide useful, well tested resource providers for linux high availability / the open cluster framework (OCF), most of them are still very widely used / relied upon and are a potentially blocker for people wanting to build modern linux clusters based on RHEL/CentOS 7 and beyond.
In a perfect world RHEL/Fedora would simply build the pacemaker package with the --with stonithd
flag and reinstate the cluster-glue
package that was present in 6, However I know how hard it is to get those kind of changes made after a release (and probably for good reason).
- There is only one difference when building the pacemaker package that enables this that requires no additional packages or code.
- There are three parts to this request - they are neither complex or fraught with dependency nightmares.
- Provide the package
pacemaker
with legacy-plugins enabled when the RPM is generated.