Re: Creating a new named official debian repository for OpenStack backports (Uploading all of OpenStack to backports)
On 03/11/2014 10:11 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 11/03/14 at 22:08 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>> I'm not completely convinced that we need several versions of
>>> OpenStack at the same time in a backports-like repository, but if you
>>> want to achieve that, that's a way that doesn't involve separate
>>> repositories for each release.
>>
>> How would you do it then? I don't think it's realistic to, on each
>> release, rename about 80 .deb files for the core packages, just to have
>> version numbers. This would be *very* messy, and loss of time for the
>> FTP masters, and error prone for package maintainers (because of the
>> need to get the Replaces: / Provides: / Breaks: right on all packages to
>> make upgrade working).
>
> Then you could have only the version in testing also in backports, that
> is, the latest OpenStack version? That's still better than nothing.
Right, I know I can do that... :)
I still think FTP masters (Ganneff or Ansgar?) would be the best persons
to tell if what I'm asking is (at least technically) possible right now.
Thomas
Reply to: