Re: [Ceph-maintainers] download.ceph.com repository changes

[Ken Dreyer <kdreyer-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 1:28 AM, Fabian Grünbichler
<f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:38:43AM -0400, Alfredo Deza wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After the 12.2.6 release went out, we've been thinking on better ways
>> to remove a version from our repositories to prevent users from
>> upgrading/installing a known bad release.
>>
>> The way our repos are structured today means every single version of
>> the release is included in the repository. That is, for Luminous,
>> every 12.x.x version of the binaries is in the same repo. This is true
>> for both RPM and DEB repositories.
>>
>> However, the DEB repos don't allow pinning to a given version because
>> our tooling (namely reprepro) doesn't construct the repositories in a
>> way that this is allowed. For RPM repos this is fine, and version
>> pinning works.
>
> If you mean that reprepo does not support referencing multiple versions
> of packages in the Packages file, there is a patched fork that does
> (that seems well-supported):
>
> https://github.com/profitbricks/reprepro

Thanks for this link. That's great to know someone's working on this.

What's the status of merging that back into the main reprepro code, or
else shipping that fork as the new reprepro package in Debian /
Ubuntu? The Ceph project could end up responsible for maintaining that
reprepro fork if the main Ubuntu community does not pick it up :) The
fork is several years old, and the latest update on
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570623 was over a
year ago.

- Ken
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