Fwd: Freshness of PPAs

[Andres Rodriguez]

Hi Mark,



On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
> This is why we put a more semantic structure into snap channels. In snap
> channels the sequence of fallback (from edge to beta to candidate to
> stable) is predictable. We also are gaining proper series for snaps, so
> people won't get major version jump unless they want the latest bits
> explicitly.
>
> I think we should drop the MAAS PPAs in favour of classic snaps en route
> to strictly confined snaps.
>

The goal is indeed to drop PPA's in favor of snaps.

We were targeting to finalize the MAAS snap (as there are still some rough
edges) and provide an upgrade path for users running debs before we fully
deprecate the use of PPA's.

Hope this helps.

>
> Mark
>
>
> On 22/01/17 01:42, John A Meinel wrote:
>
> What is the actual release order for packages in the PPAs. I noticed that:
>
>    - Yakkety has 2.1.3+bzr5573-0
>    - ~maas/stable has 2.1.2+bzr5555
>    - ~maas/proposed has 2.1.3+bzr5573
>    - ~maas/next has 2.1.0+bzr5480
>    - ~maas/next-proposed has 2.0.0~rc4
>
> I would have thought that things would flow from next-proposed into next,
> into proposed, into stable, into the official archive.
>
> It does look like 'proposed' has the version that ended up in the official
> Archive (at least for Yakkety). Is the intent that after it goes into the
> archive it will end up in 'stable'?
>
> My intent is to have 2 MAAS controllers for testing, one running whatever
> is the current stable, and one running whatever is in development so that I
> can be prepared for any changes that might come up.
>
> I was hoping I could point at either 'next' or 'next-proposed', but both
> of those seem much more out of date than stable and proposed.
>
> Advice welcome,
> John
> =:->
>
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Andres Rodriguez
Engineering Manager, MAAS
Canonical USA, Inc.
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