On Friday 28 of March 2014 12:18:24 David Hare wrote: > On 26/03/14 17:20, Sl�vek 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? > > > > 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. > > Thanks Sl�vek. 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,... -- Slavek