Proposed pocket racing uninstallability and SRU verification around release time

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 21 October 2016 at 06:21, Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 09:58:45AM +0000, Adam Conrad wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 06:02:35PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> > > The only complication I'm aware of is that we absolutely must have
> different
> > > apt preferences behavior for chroots - such as buildd chroots - than
> for end
> > > user systems; but that should be solvable by using a preferences.d file
> > > shipped in the right package.  Probably either
> software-properties-common or
> > > ubuntu-release-upgrader-core?
>
> > That's backwards.  If you want the default to be safe, and the exception
> > to be the wild west, we should configure it *just* like backports.
> > NotAutomatic on the server side, no surprises for people without the
> right
> > apt preferences bits in place.
>
> > The buildd chroots already carry a pin for backports to reverse the
> effect
> > of NotAutomatic, and could as easily do so for proposed, if there was
> > consensus that this behaviour change is the Way and the Light.
>
> The reason I thought of doing it this way around is that I have existing
> chroots where I enable -proposed (for the obvious reasons), and it would be
> convenient for me to not have to touch them to add this apt config
> manually;
> I assume there will be other developers in the same boat.
>

Just make mk-sbuild dtrt please :-)

Cheers,
mwh


> But if there's a preference to change this on the archive side to make the
> pocket NotAutomatic and then adjust the buildd chroots, I can live with
> that.  I'd just like us to fix it so it's sensible behavior for end users
> by
> default.
>
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