Re: [HTCondor-users] Debian packages for Condor 8.3.7

[Tim Theisen <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for pointing that out. It turns out that the build for debian 
7 failed the final release candidate (because of a problem with the 
build machine). At this point I could update the repository with all 
330977 builds. I was not aware that this would cause a problem. But not 
it seems very obvious.

I am sorry for any inconvenience, I will make sure that it does not 
happen again.

...Tim

On 08/25/2015 07:16 AM, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> I'm keeping a local copy of latest (HT)Condor Debian packages, and
> with 8.3.7 I observed something mysterious:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32376376 Jul 27 23:57 condor_8.3.7-330977-deb7_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30644570 Jul 28 00:04 condor_8.3.7-331383-deb6_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20514186 Jul 27 23:58 condor_8.3.7-331383-deb8_amd64.deb
>
> This means that if someone has both "squeeze" and "wheezy" lines in
> sources.list (possibly leftovers from a previous dist-upgrade,
> perhaps to preserve access to packages that weren't included in
> the later distro, whatever - I admit that I'm doing this rather
> often), the Squeeze package will be installed since it's got a
> higher build number.
> Or at least it will be attempted - there's a dependency from
> libssl0.9.8 which will result in an error. Not sure whether
> people will immediately recognize that it's caused by the obsolete
> line.
> If someone still uses Squeeze (because it's LTS'ed) and suddenly
> decides to dist-upgrade to Wheezy, the old libssl will be kept
> and the condor package won't be upgraded, resulting in a
> non-functional HTCondor installation. This time, there'll be no
> warning nor error! (A further dist-upgrade to Jessie will magically
> fix this.)
>
> This doesn't happen with 8.2.9 where the three build numbers for
> Squeeze, Wheezy, and Jessie are identical, and the -debx suffix
> makes sure the right version will be used.
> As a rule, packages for "higher" Debian releases should *always*
> have a higher version-build+something number.
>
>
> Also I'm curious why the Jessie package is about one third smaller
> than the Wheezy one - the contents look not too different. Someone
> willing to explain?
>
>
> Thanks,
>   Steffen

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Tim Theisen
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