[Piuparts-devel] Bug#710347: Bug#710347: piuparts: Mirror should follow distro defaults when they are explicitly specified

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> On 2013-05-30 05:40, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
>> Package: piuparts
>> Version: 0.48ubuntu1
>
> That's so outdated ... compared to 0.52 being released a few days ago.

That's just the installed version. I shouldn't have let reportbug set
that. I was actually working on 0.52's unpacked source. There's an
updated patch attached based on the develop branch in git.

> We'd appreciate if you could test the git version on ubuntu (especially
> getting a master-slave setup running).

I'll try to do some testing with that sometime soon.

>> Currently, if you run 'piuparts -D $distro -a $package' on a distro different
>> than the host distro, you don't get the correct mirrors added to your sources.
>> If a distro default is explicitly added using '-D', you should get that
>> distro's default mirrors. This would make it easier to run piuparts against
>> Debain on an Ubuntu host and vise versa.
>
> I need to think more about this. Especially with having
> get_default_mirror() related TODO entries ...
>
> Do we need to add anything to distros.conf for supporting Ubuntu?
> I'm primarily thinking about "partial" distros like security updates
> (the equivalent to wheezy/updates) and volatile updates (aka
> wheezy-updates).

Ubuntu has $release-updates, $release-security, and $release-proposed.
updates and security aren't interesting when testing against the
development release, and proposed is never enabled by default.
Though, updates and security should be used if you are testing say
raring -> saucy upgrades. I wonder if some of what's in distros.conf
could be generated programmatically with the help of
python-distro-info?

Thanks,

-- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

   Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething>
   Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb>
   PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 0001-When-distro-defaults-are-explicitly-specified-use-th.patch
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 1480 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/piuparts-devel/attachments/20130530/0b380847/attachment.obj>