Open Stack

Hi colleagues,

we're using Openstack from Ubuntu repositories. Everything is perfect 
except cases when I manually apply patches before supplier (e.g. 
Canonical) will issue updated versions. The problem is that it happens 
not immediately and not with the next update, thus all patches I applied 
manually, will be overwrited back during next update.

How you, firends, deal with this? Is "manual" (as described above) way 
is the most safe and reliable? Or may be there is "stable" branch of 
Openstack components which can be used as maintenance? Or whether 
"master" branch is good and safe source for updating Openstack 
components is such way?

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

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Volodymyr Litovka
   "Vision without Execution is Hallucination." -- Thomas Edison