hi Julian > deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha stretch/19.11 this solution is very clean from a user's perspective - but... it does create a lot more repo setup complexity and effort per release this solution requires that all 3x3 distributions have all packages explicitly added to them, so 3x more package relationships to maintain
i think the following is good alternative solution... deb http://debian.koha-community.org/distro [buster/19.11|jessie/18.11|stable/stable|...} deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha [19.11|18.11|stable|...} the magic of this solution is that most 'distro' distributions will be empty, as there is no problem with them (eg: bullseye/20.05, stretch/19.11, jessie/20.05, etc...) they will continue to install the default packages from the 'koha' repo - currently, only a small number of the distributions will require additional packages (eg: buster/*) - alternative provides the same level of koha+distro combinations - alternative continues to use the existing 'koha' repo for 99% of the packages - alternative has the 'distro' packages located in a different directory, so easier to understand and maintain - only a minimum of 3 distros to update per release cycle, not 3x3 minimum the good news about the extra complexity is we can use jenkins-ci to test/detect any problems before release cheers, Mason On 10/03/20 8:35 pm, Julian Maurice wrote: > Hi, > > With the 'distro' repo, won't we have incompatibility problems between the > Koha version and the Perl modules versions ? For instance, if Koha 18.11 and > 19.11 require 2 different versions of Mojolicious, how would that be solved ? > > Another option is to have one repository per Koha version, for instance: > > deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha_19.11 [stretch|buster|bionic|...] > > or to add the Koha version to the distribution name > > deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha stretch/19.11 > > That way we can support every koha/distro combinations we want. > > Le 10/03/2020 à 08:08, Mason James a écrit : >> Hi Koha devs >> >> We have a dependency problem with the release of debian-10 and the following >> packages. (debian-11 is ok) >> >> libmojolicious-perl >> libmojolicious-plugin-openapi-perl >> libyaml-libyaml-perl >> >> >> The packages require specific versions to be built for specific debian >> releases, due to their dependencies. >> This type of problem has occurred before: an example is the >> libcryptx-perl/ubuntu-16.04 bug. or elasicsearch with jessie... >> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23128 >> >> The specifics of the dependency problem are quite complex so I wont bore you >> unless you really ask :) >> >> It seems the best solution is to create a new 'distro' repo that contains a >> small number of additional distro-specific packages. This should allow us to >> support every type of koha/distro (and arch) combination >> >> >> Here's an example of a Koha sources.list file... (We can name the distro >> releases/aliases as we please) >> >> deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha >> [19.05|19.11|stable|oldstable|oldoldstable] main >> deb http://debian.koha-community.org/distro >> [debian9|ubuntu16.04|bionic|ubuntu-oldstable|stable] main >> >> >> FYI: It's possible to add the distro-specific packages to the existing >> 'koha' repo, but that should probably be avoided due to managing the extra >> complexity (its cleaner to separate the two repos imho) >> >> >> Two other options... >> 1/ use kc.org debian packages, with cpanminus (or similar) providing the >> distro specific packages (extra installation steps and complexity) >> 2/ ignore the problem for now, and accept that older koha/distro >> combinations will be forced to break >> >> Does anyone have any other solutions that I have missed, or a better >> solution even? >> >> >> Cheers, Mason >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org >> https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> website : http://www.koha-community.org/ >> git : http://git.koha-community.org/ >> bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
