From: "Perry Myers" <pmyers(a)redhat.com>
To: "Pádraig Brady" <pbrady(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Alvaro Lopez Ortega" <aortega(a)redhat.com>, "rdo-list"
redhat.com>, "Dan Prince" <dprince(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 9:42:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Rdo-list] experiences trying out RDO Havana (H2 milestone) on RHEL 6.4
On 08/07/2013 06:25 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 08/07/2013 09:40 AM, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote:
>> On Aug 4, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Perry Myers <pmyers(a)redhat.com
>> <mailto:pmyers@redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Then I thought to check the nightly repos here:
>>>
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-trunk/el6/x86_64/
>>>
>>> Packstack isn't even in those repos, which means that folks can't
use
>>> packstack to install nightly builds easily.
>>
>> This is something the CI team discussed last Monday. SmokeStack ought to
>> pack Packstack along the rest of the components. Testing it may be out of
>> scope, but at least it should generate the PackStack RPM. It'd avoid the
>> problem you just described so people could test the very latest version
>> of all the packages with ease.
>>
>> It's a work item for this week, so we should get it sorted out within the
>> next few days.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Alvaro
>
> What I had previously suggested was that the trunk packages were just
> updates
> on top of the existing pre-release standard repo.
> So to test the trunk repo you would currently enable for example
> the Havana milestone repo _and_ the trunk repo,
> and in that way get all the ancillary packages without the
> space and maintenance overhead of keeping two very similar repos in sync.
+1, this is a good idea
Do we need a release RPM though that makes getting the combination of
nightly + stable repos enabled simultaneously?
Perry
Probably that and a page on the wiki, linked in from the QuickStart (similar to how the
"get fedora" page has a little note when alpha/beta versions are available),
making the information discoverable for users wanting to try Havana packages.
Thanks,
Steve