[openstack-dev] [DevStack] Python dependencies: PyPI vs distro packages

Joshua Harlow harlowja at yahoo-inc.com
Thu Aug 8 17:42:39 UTC 2013


Seems pretty similar. Has anyone been using that in production scenarios??

On 8/8/13 4:10 AM, "Pádraig Brady" <P at draigBrady.com> wrote:

>On 08/07/2013 06:54 PM, Monty Taylor wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 08/07/2013 12:53 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
>>> I agree triple-o will help a lot here although I would disagree that
>>> package rollback is an illusion. I would call it more of a hard
>>> problem instead since nothing is really impossible :)
>> 
>> illusion with current packaging systems yum/rpm and apt/dpkg.
>> 
>> One of the reason that Ian Murdock worked on OpenSolaris was to try to
>> make a next-gen packaging system. It was called IPS (image packaging
>> system) and was based on ZFS filesystem transaction abilities. So you'd
>> start a ZFS transaction before you started doing an IPS operation, and
>> then if that action was successful, you'd commit.
>
>Seems similar to:
>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemRollbackWithBtrfs
>
>cheers,
>Pádraig.
>
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