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Re: [trinity-users] Alternative APT source 'R14 preliminary stable-builds'

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:03:16 +0100
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