Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Thursday 17 March 2016 19:06:00 deloptes wrote:
Lisi Reisz wrote:
Why not just use Slávek's Preliminary Stable
Builds repository instead
of the ones you have? It would solve your problem immediately for very
little effort. I switched some while ago because I wanted a patch fast
and have never looked back. It is great! You get exactly what will be
going into 14.0.4, but you get it sooner. And come the release of
14.0.4 you won't need to upgrade because you will already have it.
Note the "Stable" in the name. ;-)
Lisi
I don't know - this is new to me and the steak is big as I can not risk,
so I had to investigate pro and contra but never got the opportunity to
do so. Since I have time to follow up the list closer, it was in some
sort of transition, but I think now it settled down.
If you have some information to enlighten me, this would be nice.
What would you like to know? Debian users are apt to see Slávek's
Preliminary Stable Builds repository as the equivalent of Testing, but
that is wrong.
I never thought of it in any kind. Something I do not understand or know, I
do not qualify or see as something else. So I never had time or interest to
look into this matter.
Assuming that you go on using
deb
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian
jessie main
deb-src
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian jessie
main deb
and that you update and upgrade regularly, then when 14.0.4 is released
you
will get all the new packages and patches in one fell, quite large swoop.
If you don't want then you will have to stop upgrading or comment out the
Trinity repositories.
Yes usually Friday at the office. They have really fast network there. It
takes 15mins (at least last time it took 15min to download and
install/upgrade to 14.0.3)
Those packages and patches are not prepared suddenly over-night. They are
gathered up over time and stored until it is time to release them. It is
Slávek who stores them. (I think only Slávek, but possibly not only
Slávek).
I understand thanks
If you change to:
deb
http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb jessie deps-r14 main-r14
deb-src
http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb jessie deps-r14 main-r14
then as the bug patches and new packages are ready, you will get them
immediately. Exactly the same ones as you would get later in 14.0.4 when
it
is released. Mostly bug patches. As with Debian Stable, new things are
_mostly_ reserved for the next major release and it is bug fixes which are
released meanwhile. So the only difference is when you get them. As
there
is no such thing as software without bugs, presumably there are
occasionally bugs in the bug-fixes, and presumably they are occasionally
found and put right.
But I do not see what you would have to lose if you want a patched package
urgently. What you are doing now strikes me as just possibly being able
to
mess up your system. Not very likely, but more likely than stuff released
by Slávek, since that has been tested elsewhere, and its tested
dependencies
worked out, before it reaches your system. The Preliminary Stable Builds
repositories are no more risky than any other upgrade.
It gives a better picture thanks. Because I use this notebook for work, I
don't feel well being one of the first and few to run new software. This is
it and this is why I stick to debian stable and TDE.
I'm not sure if that has answered your questions
at all. Just ask, if it
hasn't. But if you want a particular bug fix to a particular package, and
Slávek has the patch, this is in MHO the safest, and certainly the
quickest and easiest, way to get it.
Yes this was perfect, thanks.
I still however prefer to be able to rebuild the package I need. I have few
packages I marked to hold until fixes are pushed upstream.
It is simply much faster and gives me opportunity to test (perhaps to
improve the suggested patch).
In theory from what I here it would be possible to install just a single
package from Slaveks repo - correct? So download and dpkg -i should do the
work, but what about dependencies and the same question applies to what you
described above - if the repo builds up incrementally, does it mean I have
all dependencies in one go?
regards