[1586] in athena10
Apt repository transition plans
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Mar 12 23:52:20 2009
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:51:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: athena10@mit.edu
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I told jdreed I'd outline in more detail my proposal for the remaining
steps in our apt repository transition plan. I think it's the same as
what we agreed upon at the last release team meeting:
(0) We should test a transition process, which I think is basically (as
root):
aptitude update
aptitude install debathena-archive-keyring
sed -i "s/athena10/debathena/g" /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debathena.list
aptitude full-upgrade
(1) We should email testers@ (and any other fora that the athena10.mit.edu
URL was advertised to; perhaps sipb-office would be good to catch
students) explaining that we're moving the repository from
athena10.mit.edu to debathena.mit.edu, and that athena10.mit.edu/apt will
stop working in about a week. The email will explain the simple
transition plan.
(2) Sometime after that, we make athena10.mit.edu/apt go to a page
explaining that the apt repository has moved (and documenting how to
switch).
(3) At our leisure, we can remove the Athena 10 signing key from
debathena-archive-keyring, since it would not be unnecessary.
The end result of this is that nobody is using the old URI and expecting a
redirect to continue working. I figure this is ideal since it leaves us
in the convenient position of only having one apt repository URI that we
need to maintain in the long term.
One thing we might consider adding to this plan is to setup the Debathena
apt repository logger on athena10.mit.edu/apt in order to track whether
people are still using the old URI. But this is probably overkill.
-Tim Abbott
