Yes, it's a 'known issue' with the style of Debian repos management. Personally, I don't understand why all versions of except the latest one are intentionally removed from repo index. Because if we had several versions of a package in the repo, anyway 'apt-get install cassandra cassandra-tools' would choose the latest one by default.
(You may experiment with 'apt-cache policy <package-name>') This approach with leaving the latest version forces end-users to create and maintain local debian repos. Because if we already have a cluster 3.11.1 and would like to all a node there, we can't install C* 3.11.1 by apt-get from C* official repo. For example, Datadog team keeps all versions of their packages in repo index: https://s3.amazonaws.com/apt.datadoghq.com/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages, and in case some particular version of dd-agent is needed users still have ability to install it by specifying it explicitly, like this: 'apt-get install <pkg>=<version>', while 'apt-get install <pkg>' will install the latest version of the package. Nothing to say, in case of C* version does matters. So, I'd say this 'feature' is a bad feature. Regards, Kyrill ________________________________ From: Michael Shuler <mshu...@pbandjelly.org> on behalf of Michael Shuler <mich...@pbandjelly.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 8:18:21 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Missing 3.11.X cassandra debian packages On 02/21/2018 11:56 AM, Zachary Marois wrote: > Starting in that last two weeks (I successfully installed cassandra > sometime in the last two weeks), I'm guessing on 2/19 when version > 3.11.2 was released, the cassandra apt package version 3.11.1 became > unstable. It doesn't seem to be published in the > http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian repository anymore (at least > not in a valid state). > > > Despite the package actually being in the repository still > > http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian/pool/main/c/cassandra/cassandra_3.11.1_all.deb > > It is no longer in the Packages list This is just the way reprepro works - only the latest version will be reported. This is a feature. Users really should be installing the latest release version. > http://dl.bintray.com/apache/cassandra/dists/311x/main/binary-amd64/Packages > > It looks like version 3.11.2 was released on 2/19. > > I'm guessing that publishing dropped the 3.11.1 version from the > packages list. This happens for every release. Every so often, branches will be culled from http://www.apache.org/dist/, when they are no longer supported, so periodically, complete series of packages will disappear. However, they will always be available from the canonical Apache release repository. The canonical release repository for Apache projects is archive.apache.org. Every release artifact of the Apache Cassandra project appears at: http://archive.apache.org/dist/cassandra/ A debian package user that cannot upgrade to the latest version via apt-get can always use, for example wget to fetch .deb. files they need from the repo pool dir: http://archive.apache.org/dist/cassandra/debian/pool/main/c/cassandra/ You will not find Cassandra 0.7.9 in the "current" apt repositories any longer, since they are unsupported, but there are indeed people using that version. The above spot is where to find the .deb packages for 0.7.9, and all older releases. -- Warm regards, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@cassandra.apache.org
