[c-nsp] NCS-5001 - MPLS L3VPN Issue

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Lukas Tribus wrote:

> But then again, when you do need that particular SMU, that isn't covered 
> by any SP yet, you can't apply it and you have to wait for the next SP 
> containing this fix - which kind of defeats the purpose.

I still expect Cisco to do some kind of "hotfix", which is what SMUs are 
good at. Fixing some specific issue until next SR comes along.

My biggest objection was that historically one had to apply 40-50 SMUs at 
a single time, some obsoleted others, some depended on others. It was just 
hell to figure out how to get where one wanted to be. Often you found out 
if you missed something after 30-60 minutes and you got a rejection 
message that something went wrong. There was no mechanism for 
automatically including SMUs that another SMU depended on.

So software application path should be (and this is what I hope they're 
doing):

Version x.y.z
SR every 1-4 months, which rolls up all fixes and removes all previous 
SMUs and SRs during install. SR has no dependencies apart from what 
version it applies to.
SMUs for the last SR for hotfixes that are so new that the fix hasn't made 
it into an SR yet.

I've been told XR 6.x will have a new package handler, I am curious to see 
if that actually fixes a lot of the problems. I kept stating to people 
involved with XR that the Debian apt tool was better in 2000 than the 
package handling in XR in 2014.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se