On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:53 -0600, paul cannon wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> > 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 builds > > currently hosted on ASF mirrors. > > 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.
The packages uploaded to the ASF mirrors have thus far been stable releases. Those could just as easily be uploaded to backports.org. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com
