On 21 October 2016 at 06:21, Steve Langasek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 09:58:45AM +0000, Adam Conrad wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 06:02:35PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > The only complication I'm aware of is that we absolutely must have > different > > > apt preferences behavior for chroots - such as buildd chroots - than > for end > > > user systems; but that should be solvable by using a preferences.d file > > > shipped in the right package. Probably either > software-properties-common or > > > ubuntu-release-upgrader-core? > > > That's backwards. If you want the default to be safe, and the exception > > to be the wild west, we should configure it *just* like backports. > > NotAutomatic on the server side, no surprises for people without the > right > > apt preferences bits in place. > > > The buildd chroots already carry a pin for backports to reverse the > effect > > of NotAutomatic, and could as easily do so for proposed, if there was > > consensus that this behaviour change is the Way and the Light. > > The reason I thought of doing it this way around is that I have existing > chroots where I enable -proposed (for the obvious reasons), and it would be > convenient for me to not have to touch them to add this apt config > manually; > I assume there will be other developers in the same boat. > Just make mk-sbuild dtrt please :-) Cheers, mwh > But if there's a preference to change this on the archive side to make the > pocket NotAutomatic and then adjust the buildd chroots, I can live with > that. I'd just like us to fix it so it's sensible behavior for end users > by > default. > > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ > [email protected] [email protected] > > -- > Ubuntu-release mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release > >
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