Re: Packaging Cassandra for Ubuntu

On Jun 3, 2010, at 1:53 PM, paul cannon wrote: > > Probably not in cases where people want to use new releases; there is > a non-negligible time delay in getting packages into released or > "testing" suites of Ubuntu and Debian, and sometimes even into Debian > unstable. > > With cassandra being

Re: Packaging Cassandra for Ubuntu

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Eric Evans wrote: > The packages uploaded to the ASF mirrors have thus far been stable > releases. Those could just as easily be uploaded to backports.org. backports.org only allows versions of packages which are already in Debian testing. -- paul, the

Re: Packaging Cassandra for Ubuntu

On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:53 -0600, paul cannon wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Eric Evans > wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 07:55 -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: > >> * We will most likely conflict with the Cassandra published debian > packages. Is this acceptable? Suggested solutions? > > > >

Re: Packaging Cassandra for Ubuntu

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Eric Evans wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 07:55 -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: >> * We will most likely conflict with the Cassandra published debian packages. >> Is this acceptable? Suggested solutions? > > Ultimately, I think packages in Ubuntu/Debian can replace the b

Re: Packaging Cassandra for Ubuntu

On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 07:55 -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: > I've discussed this on the IRC channel briefly before (handle: > SpamapS) and am interested in hearing what the Cassandra developer > community as a whole has to say about our efforts to package Cassandra > for Ubuntu. I'm ambivalent. ;) Seri

Re: Packaging Cassandra for Ubuntu

I have only used the modified sources.list approach to make apt-get work. In my case the only java running on the resulting ubuntu 9.1 karmic koala instance was to support Cassandra. What would the preferred best practice be? For example, would it be to have the *.jar files be placed in a priva

Packaging Cassandra for Ubuntu

Greetings, I've discussed this on the IRC channel briefly before (handle: SpamapS) and am interested in hearing what the Cassandra developer community as a whole has to say about our efforts to package Cassandra for Ubuntu. Some of you may know that it is against policy in both Debian and Ubunt

Hudson build is back to normal : Cassandra #454

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