Hi all,
in light of the recent problems on the build-farm, I used the fact that ever since work on v3.5.13-sru I have the automated preparation of source packages and at the same time I have a private builder where I am doing the test building, and where I have available all supported Debian and Ubuntu distributions (for example, see my test for building on Ubuntu Trusty). I optimize my production line for building packages, so now I have ready alternative APT source containing packages for all supported Debian and Ubuntu distributions.
The same packages will be in the future uploaded to my PPA on build-farm, where they will serve as maintanance releases for R14. Similarly, as was my PPA for v3.5.13-sru branch. Therefore, this apt source I call 'R14 preliminary stable-builds'. In order that the packages were readily available, they are synced to my primary mirror.
What to do if you want to use it?
1) Add the source to sources.list: deb http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb *distribution-name* deps-r14 main-r14
2) From some public GPG keyserver download my key and import it into APT: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pks.gpg.cz --recv-keys ED1F4884
3) Update the packages in such a way as you used to do it :)
I hope it will be helpful.
On 26/03/14 17:20, Slávek Banko wrote:
Hi all,
in light of the recent problems on the build-farm, I used the fact that ever since work on v3.5.13-sru I have the automated preparation of source packages and at the same time I have a private builder where I am doing the test building, and where I have available all supported Debian and Ubuntu distributions (for example, see my test for building on Ubuntu Trusty). I optimize my production line for building packages, so now I have ready alternative APT source containing packages for all supported Debian and Ubuntu distributions.
The same packages will be in the future uploaded to my PPA on build-farm, where they will serve as maintanance releases for R14. Similarly, as was my PPA for v3.5.13-sru branch. Therefore, this apt source I call 'R14 preliminary stable-builds'. In order that the packages were readily available, they are synced to my primary mirror.
What to do if you want to use it?
- Add the source to sources.list:
deb http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb *distribution-name* deps-r14 main-r14
- From some public GPG keyserver download my key and import it into APT:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pks.gpg.cz --recv-keys ED1F4884
- Update the packages in such a way as you used to do it :)
I hope it will be helpful.
Thanks Slávek. I have replaced "nightly builds" with your mirror. Working fine, at the moment I have a dist-upgrade running (Wheezy) in download-only mode at 150-250 kB/s
After R14 release, when will this mirror setup no longer work?
David
On Friday 28 of March 2014 12:18:24 David Hare wrote:
On 26/03/14 17:20, Slávek Banko wrote:
Hi all,
in light of the recent problems on the build-farm, I used the fact that ever since work on v3.5.13-sru I have the automated preparation of source packages and at the same time I have a private builder where I am doing the test building, and where I have available all supported Debian and Ubuntu distributions (for example, see my test for building on Ubuntu Trusty). I optimize my production line for building packages, so now I have ready alternative APT source containing packages for all supported Debian and Ubuntu distributions.
The same packages will be in the future uploaded to my PPA on build-farm, where they will serve as maintanance releases for R14. Similarly, as was my PPA for v3.5.13-sru branch. Therefore, this apt source I call 'R14 preliminary stable-builds'. In order that the packages were readily available, they are synced to my primary mirror.
What to do if you want to use it?
- Add the source to sources.list:
deb http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb *distribution-name* deps-r14 main-r14
- From some public GPG keyserver download my key and import it into APT:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pks.gpg.cz --recv-keys ED1F4884
- Update the packages in such a way as you used to do it :)
I hope it will be helpful.
Thanks Slávek. I have replaced "nightly builds" with your mirror. Working fine, at the moment I have a dist-upgrade running (Wheezy) in download-only mode at 150-250 kB/s
After R14 release, when will this mirror setup no longer work?
David
I intend to keep this APT repository active after release R14.0.0. However, in the same way as my PPA's on build-farm - there will be a preliminary packages for subsequent stable releases - as will R14.0.1, R14.0.2,...
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David Hare -
Slávek Banko