Re: [Openvpn-devel] Separate apt repositories for 2.4-alpha/beta/rc releases?

[Matthias Andree]

Am 15.10.2016 um 12:11 schrieb David Sommerseth:
> b) Have the package exclude each other to block both being installed
>at the same time.

That's the path normally chosen and that I'd recommend for DEB/APT-based
packages because solvers can usually figure that part out. I think the
RPM world needs some support from the dependency solvers, too. Not sure
what dnf is up to these days, but it - as its predecessor yum - seemed
to do the right thing for the limited exposure I gave them in my Fedora
installations, and I stopped caring about other RPM-based distros years ago.


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Re: [Openvpn-devel] Separate apt repositories for 2.4-alpha/beta/rc releases?

[Matthias Andree]

Am 14.10.2016 um 21:51 schrieb Steffan Karger:
>
> On 14 Oct 2016 9:14 p.m., "Matthias Andree"  > wrote:
> >
> > Am 14.10.2016 um 17:28 schrieb Samuli Seppänen:
>
> > > Would 2.3.12 -> 2.4-alpha1 be too big an upgrade?
> > >
> > Yes, definitely. Please create a separate distribution for .deb packages
> > derived from pre-releases.
>
> Indeed. We shouldn't upgrade people who are expecting stable releases
> to alpha versions.
>
One more somewhat more constructive note:
Oracle have been naming their VirtualBox packages such that they
included the minor version in the NAME.
So the package name would be openvpn-2.3 or openvpn-2.4 for us, which
creates redundancy as the actual version is added (openvpn-2.3-2.3.12),
but it prevents moving users between release branches.

Alpha/beta releases and perhaps the early release candidates should
still also be marked in a separate "unstable" 'distribution'.


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