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On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Adam Young <ayoung at redhat.com> wrote:

>  On 12/02/2013 08:20 PM, Chuck Short wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
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>> On 12/02/2013 06:15 PM, Adam Young wrote:
>> > In order to provide Devstack a better certificate management example, we
>> > want to make devstack capable of calling Certmaster.
>> >
>> > This package is in Debian, but not in Ubuntu.
>> >
>> > For example
>> > http://packages.debian.org/experimental/certmaster
>> >
>> > How does one go about installing a package like this for devstack? Do we
>> > need to get it into the underlying distro, or is a cross distro install
>> > acceptable?
>> >
>> > I've tested it by hand and it install and works fine when
>> > pre-installed.  Its just a distribution problem.
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>>  That means it works, right now. But not being in the distro means there
>> are no guaruntees of it working in the future.
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>> Honestly, at this point I'd -1 an add like this. I think pulling a
>> package out of experimental is not really inspiring confidence. I'd
>> suggest looking for a package available in Ubuntu natively.
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> Yeah, wasn't suggesting we do that long term, just pointing out that it is
> a release issue, not a current code issue.
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>>         -Sean
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>  Hi,
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>  So the way that the package syncs works from Debian to Ubuntu is that a
> package usually moves from Experimental->Unstable->Testing, Ubuntu usually
> picks the package up in Unstable and gets placed in Universe (usually).
> However that doesnt mean that the package will hit the cloud archive as
> well.
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> How does a package make these transitions?  Certmaster has been in
> Experimental since 2009.
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It looks unmaintained to me, it never got out of experimental.

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> Regards
> chuck
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