[Koha-devel] A note about the squeeze-dev repo

[Renvoize, Martin]

Agree wholeheartedly with the above, it would be nice to have
testing,stable,oldstable repos instead of OS specific. (we've been using
the 'squeeze' repo on our wheezy machines for ages now).

Also agree with Robin, that I don't like version number specific repos, for
the same reasons. A clear upgrade path.

Martin Renvoize
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On 15 April 2014 23:59, Robin Sheat <robin at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

> Galen Charlton schreef op di 15-04-2014 om 10:15 [-0700]:
> > I'd like to tack on a semi-related (or possibly not at all related)
> > question.  Should we consider adopting a different set of code
> > names/suites for our APT repository?  For example:
>
> My answer here is "yes, but..."
>
> > testing
> > stable
> > oldstable
> > (maybe) reallyoldstable
>
> We probably need to deprecate the squeeze* names, however they do serve
> a potential purpose. That is, if we need to build a different version
> for different OSes, then we can. However, I don't think this is likely,
> and we'd be better off actively avoiding that being a thing we need to
> do. Given this, I'd lean towards the names you list above.
>
> I think I can actually make this happen just by setting up some symlinks
> in the repo.
>
> > or perhaps go by version number (modified as needed to confirm with
> > any toolchain expectations about the format of the suite name)?
> >
> > 3.16.x
> > 3.14.x
> > etc.
>
> I've thought about this, and I don't like it. The main reason is that if
> people just want to regularly update to be either more bleeding edge or
> a bit more conservative, they can track squeeze or oldstable
> respectively. If the distribution names are version numbers, then
> there's no seamless upgrade path when a version is retired.
>
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