[Rdo-list] experiences trying out RDO Havana (H2 milestone) on RHEL 6.4

[Steve Gordon]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Perry Myers" <pmyers at redhat.com>
> To: "Pádraig Brady" <pbrady at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Alvaro Lopez Ortega" <aortega at redhat.com>, "rdo-list" redhat.com>, "Dan Prince" <dprince at 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 at redhat.com
> >> <mailto:pmyers at 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