Ticket #164 (new defect)

Opened 8 months ago

Last modified 3 months ago

installer should know about apt-release clusterinfo

Reported by: broder Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: The Distant Future
Component: -- Keywords:
Cc: Upstream bug:

Description

Soon, hopefully, machines in various Moira clusters around campus will have "production", "proposed", and/or "development" values for the "apt-release" key in clusterinfo.

The Debathena installer script should somehow know about this field, and should use it to frob /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debathena.list appropriately at install time.

This allows us to test how a system handles being installed with the packages in -proposed (or -development).

This one is a little trickier than #163 because we don't have debathena-clusterinfo or debathena-getcluster installed when /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debathena.list is written.

It may be that we want to install debathena-getcluster, find out the clusterinfo, and then re-generate /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debathena.list, but even this seems slightly non-ideal, as for a small period packages will only be pulled from production.

Change History

Changed 8 months ago by geofft

Is there a use case for this other than "This allows us to test how a system handles being installed with the packages in -proposed (or -development)."? auto-update should bring in packages from the other releases soon enough...

It might be more helpful, especially for virtual machines, if the installer could let you manually specify which release you want to install.

Changed 3 months ago by jdreed

  • milestone set to The Distant Future
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