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

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On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:36:55AM -0600, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 1:28 AM, Fabian Grünbichler
> <f.gruenbichler@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

I don't know anything more than what is publicly available about either
merging back to the original reprepo or shipping in Debian/Ubuntu. We
are using our own custom repo software built around lower level tools, I
was just aware of the fork for unrelated reasons :)

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