Packaging

Current State of Packaging

For documentation and discussion. Design is still in flux.

Repositories and Distributions

We have one apt repository at https://apt.galliumos.org/ which serves three "distributions" (confusing name, but there it is).

We have a second apt repository at https://apt-dev.galliumos.org/ which will be retired.

The current distributions are:

vivid-galliumos

STABLE / RELEASE (default)

priority pinned at 9999, will trump Canonical's vivid repo for all package versions

vivid-galliumos-prerelease

prerelease / staging / unstable

priority pinned at 10050, will also trump our vivid-galliumos repo for all package versions

vivid-galliumos-testing

testing / experimental / current / development / etc

priority pinned at 10090, will also trump our vivid-galliumos-prerelease repo for all package versions

General users will only have our vivid-galliumos distribution enabled (and Canonical's vivid distribution, of course).

Packages

Our package version naming convention descends from upstream Ubuntu packages, where applicable.

e.g. for packagename (1.2.3-0ubuntu1), our patches should be packaged as packagename (1.2.3-0ubuntu1-galliumos1). Some upstream packages will not have an -ubuntuX suffix, which means that they are unchanged from the Debian up-upstream. We still need to add our -galliumosX suffix.

Package Version Discrepancies!

We have some existing packages which do not follow this naming convention, and are versioned ahead of their upstreams (e.g. 1.2.3 in upstream to our 1.2.4). This causes a few issues:

1. It's confusing for us and gives users the impression that our code is a release ahead of the upstream.
2. When the upstream releases a 1.2.4, it will have different code than our 1.2.4.
3. debootstrap builds will fail to update to our pkgs when version numbers collide.

Package Version Corrections!

There are a couple ways to fix this issue:

Make a hard break sometime before current (BETA1) and 1.0 (simple, guaranteed to work)

Update packages with corrected version numbers, existing systems will not update to new packages. All users have to reinstall to move forward. :(

Add a new "pkgversionfix" repodist for all users, via inclusion in a required package (more complex, needs testing)

Populate new repodist with corrected packages, populate primary (stable) repodist with corrected packages+1. Force a "downgrade" via "pkgversionfix" repodist to the corrected packages, then disable the new repodist. This could be done with a few manual steps, or automated by a startup script (or maybe a pkg postinstall script?). Automated is more user-friendly, but might be surprising.

Manual steps would look something like this:

 ## Add new repodist
 apt-get install galliumos-distselect-pkgversionfix
 ## "downgrade" packages
 apt-get update && apt-get -y --force-yes dist-upgrade
 ## Remove new repodist
 apt-get purge galliumos-distselect-pkgversionfix
 ## Get corrected+1 pkgs from the main repo
 apt-get udpate && apt-get dist-upgrade

This needs testing, but I think it will work. Any better ideas?

Deviant package versions

These packages are currently problematically versioned:

package	upstream forked at	upstream current	galliumos current	should be
xfce4-settings	4.12.0ubuntu1	TBD	4.12.9-0ubuntu1	4.12.0-0ubuntu1-galliumos7
slim	1.3.6-4	TBD	1.3.7.4-1	1.3.6-4-galliumos13
xfwm4	4.12.1-1ubuntu1	TBD	4.12.2-1ubuntu6	4.12.2-1ubuntu1-galliumos5
pasystray	0.4.0-1	TBD	0.4.0.3-2	0.4.0-1-galliumos1
xorg-server	2:1.17.1-0ubuntu3.1	TBD	2:1.17.1-0ubuntu4	2:1.17.1-0ubuntu3.1-galliumos1
xfce4-panel	4.12.0-0ubuntu1	TBD	4.12.1-0ubuntu1	4.12.0-0ubuntu1-galliumos1
xubuntu-default-settings	15.04.5	TBD	15.04.22	15.04.5-galliumos16
dmz-cursor-theme	0.4.4ubuntu1	TBD	0.4.5ubuntu1	0.4.4ubuntu1-galliumos1
galliumos-meta	xubuntu-meta 2.190	TBD	2.201	2.190-galliumos11
xfce4-session	4.12.1-1ubuntu2	TBD	4.12.1-1ubuntu9	4.12.1-1ubuntu2-galliumos5
cups-filters	1.0.67-0ubuntu2.4	TBD	1.0.67-0ubuntu2.5	1.0.67-0ubuntu2.4-galliumos1
ubiquity	2.21.26	TBD	2.21.31	2.21.26-galliumos4
casper	1.360	TBD	1.360-2	1.360-galliumos2
zram-config	0.3.1	TBD	0.3.2-1	0.3.1-galliumos3
xubuntu-artwork	15.04.4	TBD	15.04.18	15.04.4-galliumos13
xkeyboard-config	2.12-1ubuntu1	TBD	2.12.1-1ubuntu1	2.12-1ubuntu1-galliumos1
xfce4-panel	4.12.0-0ubuntu1	TBD	4.12.1-0ubuntu1	4.12.0-0ubuntu1-galliumos1
libnotify	0.7.6-2svn1	TBD	0.7.7-1	0.7.6-2svn1-galliumos1
ubuntu-meta	1.334	TBD	1.336	1.334-galliumos2
systemd	219-7ubuntu6	TBD	219-7ubuntu29	219-7ubuntu6-galliumos3
procps	1:3.3.9-1ubuntu8	TBD	1:3.3.9.3-1ubuntu9	1:3.3.9-1ubuntu8-galliumos3
libdrm	2.4.60-2	TBD	2.4.65-1-9.22.15.git-1	2.4.60-2-galliumos2
kmod	18-3ubuntu1	TBD	18-3ubuntu2	18-3ubuntu1-galliumos1
hexchat	2.10.1-2	TBD	2.10.1-5	2.10.1-2-galliumos1
deadbeef	0.6.2-1	TBD	0.6.2-1 (no mods)	0.6.2-1-galliumos1 (future!)
xfce4-power-manager	1.4.3-0ubuntu1	TBD	1.4.8-0ubuntu11	1.4.3-0ubuntu1-galliumos12
base-files	7.2ubuntu9	TBD	7.2ubuntu10	7.2ubuntu9-galliumos1
compton	0.1~beta2-1	TBD	0.1~beta3-git-9.22.15-9	0.1~beta2-1-galliumos11
xorg	1:7.7+7ubuntu4	TBD	1:7.7+7ubuntu5	1:7.7+7ubuntu4-galliumos1
shimmer-themes	1.9.4-0ubuntu2	TBD	1.9.4-1ubuntu1	1.9.4-0ubuntu2-galliumos1