[Pkg-ganeti-devel] Some questions about packaging

[Iustin Pop]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:00:10PM -0200, Leonardo Rodrigues de Mello wrote:
> Considerations:
> I agree with the issues related to orig tar.gz and ITP.
> I believe the name would be ganeti-os-debian-etch.
> Because it is one os script for ganeti, it isn't one instance.
> The instance will be created using this script.
And at least it's shorter... :)

> And i don't see why not use the version of this package to describe the api.
> 
> That way we could use the API number as major package version.
> ex: API 4, version xyz, package release 2
> ganeti-os-debian-etch version 4.xyz-2
> 
> We can use conflict on ganeti with ganeti-os-debian-etch  (<  4)  for
> example.
No, the ganeti package itself should not need to know which of possible
many instance definitions are there. The dependency should be only on
virtual packages.

> We can use Provide to provide ganeti-os virtual package.
> That way future os scripts also provide this package.

iustin