Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Debian Installer Update (openacs 5.4.3 debian/ubuntu packages released)

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3: Re: Debian Installer Update (openacs 5.4.3 debian/ubuntu packages released) (response to 2)
Posted by Stefan Sobernig on 02/02/09 05:09 PM
Frank,

The Debian distribution targeted is mentioned prominently at the wiki page:

"[...] Beware, our packaging activity explicitly targets Debian GNU/Linux unstable ("sid") [...]"

If you plan to support stable, it would be a valuable contribution (by ]project-open[) to provide for official backports from unstable to stable (rather than documenting a "stable/etch-backport/testing system mix, as correctly hinted at by Héctor).

//stefan

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4: Re: Debian Installer Update (openacs 5.4.3 debian/ubuntu packages released) (response to 3)
Posted by Don Baccus on 02/02/09 05:17 PM
Geez a mix like that's going to be just a bit of a maintenance headache ...

The decision to choose one debian version that supports the packages we need is the correct one.

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5: Re: Debian Installer Update (openacs 5.4.3 debian/ubuntu packages released) (response to 3)
Posted by Stefan Sobernig on 02/02/09 05:31 PM
Well, there are actually three strategies available for supporting Debian distributions other than unstable:

1. official backports, contributed to www.backports.org or www.apt-get.org

2. non-official backports in a self-maintained deb repository

3. a "disciplined" mix-and-match strategy using http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning

just to clarify possible ways of action for Frank and ]project-open[ ...

//stefan