[7424] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Migrating zulu to Ubuntu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Mar 22 13:35:11 2011
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From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:33:30 -0700
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>,
"release-team@mit.edu Team" <release-team@mit.edu>
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We have in the past needed to run a couple of packages (like debootstrap, for supporting newer distros as the NOTES file mentions, and schroot, for newer features) from Debian testing. I don't think we've needed that recently, though, and adding that repository to grab one or two packages out of it is as easy on Ubuntu as it is on (released) Debian.
I'm pretty sure the latest version of Ubuntu would be just fine. A slightly older version like an LTS would also work, but we may need to backport more packages than usual.
That said, this would be losing the only Debian machine that I have access to, but our Debian testing machine probably ought not also be our build server....
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Geoffrey Thomas (from mobile)
geofft@mit.edu
"Jonathan Reed" <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>We can discuss this at release-team, but I'm sending it out now so I
>don't forget:
>
>Ops would prefer if zulu was running something more ... mainstream,
>like Lucid. Are there reasons it can't? (i.e. build tool features we
>need haven't yet made it into Ubuntu) If so, at what point can it
>become Ubuntu?
>
>(General debates about the overall qualities, usefulness, similarities,
>differences, awesomeness or suckfulness of Debian vs Ubuntu are out of
>scope for this e-mail thread. Ops has made a request, and it needs
>only a yes or no answer, with explanation. Ops has precisely one
>Debian server, and while Ubuntu is also not supported in that it's not
>RHEL, Ops is far more comfortable with it.)
>
>-Jon
