On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 07:55 -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: >> * We will most likely conflict with the Cassandra published debian packages. >> Is this acceptable? Suggested solutions? > > Ultimately, I think packages in Ubuntu/Debian can replace the builds > currently hosted on ASF mirrors.
Probably not in cases where people want to use new releases; there is a non-negligible time delay in getting packages into released or "testing" suites of Ubuntu and Debian, and sometimes even into Debian unstable. With cassandra being a relatively fast-moving target, it is probably still worthwhile to provide packages straight from an ASF repository. Those same packages could be the ones submitted for inclusion in Debian/Ubuntu, though. -- paul, the
