On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:19:17PM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > On 13-03-05 08:34 AM, Adam Conrad wrote: > > TL;DR summary: Monthly updates are harmful, monthly images are cool, let's > > do the latter without turning them into the former and all frolick happily > > in fields of time, money, and cheesecake. > > mmm...cheesecake... :) > > <snip> > > 2) No out-of-band support at all, SRU or security. The only slight change > > from how we do things now would be that security updates destined for > > the development release would be built in the security PPA (which does > > not build against -proposed), so they don't pick up new dependencies > > and can then be copied to the archive and not accidentally get caught > > up in library transition snags that hinder their migration to the > > release pocket. > > I assume we would do this so the urgent security updates don't get stuck > in -proposed for a longer than desired timeframe? The problem with doing > this is it's going to be really hard for us to not collide with version > numbers, and making sure that subsequent uploads still contain the > security fix, etc. While it may be worthwhile for a world-burning issue, > I don't see this as being reasonable for the majority of security > updates for which we'll simply upload them as usual. > > > 3) We twiddle the phased-updates spec a teensy bit so that P-U-P values > > over 100 are treated by update-manager as security/critical updates, > > and offered immediately, rather than after the configured update delay, > > much as packages in the -security pockets are now offered. With this > > model, we can make the scripts that copy from the security PPA to the > > archive set the phased update probability to 101 for security uploads, > > and have them treated as "special" by update manager, without having to > > actually use the -security pocket and deal with the annoyance of a > > pocket that doesn't have a stable base to depend on. > > Pardon my ignorance, but what does a "P-U-P value over 100" mean?
Phased Update Percentage, I believe. -- Brian Murray -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
