Re: Debian private repositories
Hi,
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:08:58AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Marc Haber <mh+debian-enterprise@zugschlus.de> [120502 21:36]:
> > I would like to know if and how you handle wishes of departments to
> > keep older versions of software around and aptable. Afaik, reprepro
> > cannot handle archives that have multiple versions of a program in the
> > same distribution/suite and cannot be easily adapted to handle this.
>
> Indeed, that functionality is not yet there and will not be there
> before the next big database reorganisation.
>
> But note that multiple versions will not solve every problem yet.
> Installing and older version when newer versions are available
> with apt-get can mean you need to explicitly list all dependencies
> with versions in the case of interrelasted packages.
The packages for which this feature is needed are catered to allow
this, so this is a non-issue.
> > It is, however, frequently demanded in enterprise that one needs to be
> > able to newly deploy a machine using old software to care for
> > reproducibility.
>
> If you want full reproducibility, you can use snapshots to
> freeze one state of a distribution in a apt-gettable way.
If your setup is large enough, you would end up with literally
thousands of snapshots.
> But security updates should be more important than full
> reproducibility. So your workflow should really have some way
> to update stuff.
I am pretty well aware of this, but my job is not about educating
other parts of my client organization.
> When having multiple computers with the same software installed,
> I have successfully used additional distributions with exactly
> those packages in it those machines should get. Due to using
> a pool/, all that adds is the size of the dists/ directory
> (and about the same size in db/).
That would, as well, end up with thousands of distributions that would
be to 99 % identical but would need special handling each
Greetings
Marc
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