846346 - Create partial deb repo for packages need updates

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Infrastructure & Operations :: RelOps: Puppet, task)

Description

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

It turns out that we need to update some packages to make tests working.

Comment 1

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

I don't think that's a good idea, given that we can't update just some sections.  It means if we ever need to update precise-security, we also have to update precise-updates, with unpredictable results.

Can we just pull the updated packages we need?

Comment 2

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

we can probably use reprepro to pull some packages. I haven't used reprepro in this mode though... I can try to set up it.

Comment 3

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

I suppose one option is to not mirror everything into /data/repos/mirrors/ubuntu, and instead mirror it into separate repos for each section.  I don't know how much extra space that would consume, but it would solve this problem.

Anyway, there's nothing I can do here that you can't, and you understand the situation at least as well, if not better, than I do, so have at it!

Comment 4

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

Documented here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/PuppetAgain/HowTo/Build_DEBs#Importing_particular_updates_from_upstream

Comment 5

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

We need a better way to import packages and *required* dependencies only to avoid missing packages. For example gnome-settings-daemon pulled libc6 update, but not libc6-dev, what prevented nvidia drivers to be installed properly.

Comment 6

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

Rail, is this still an issue?

Comment 7

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

Closing as INCOMPLETE because we still don't have an automated way to figure out dependencies we need to import/backport...