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Re: [trinity-users] Can we have a mention of Slávek's repository on the web-site?

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 03:13:21 +0200
On Thursday 30 of April 2015 22:42:37 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Can we have a mention of Slávek's R14 preliminary-stable-builds repository
> on the web-site?
>
> With a short explanation of what it is, along the lines of: more up-to-date
> versions and other architectures/distros can be found at...and perhaps the
> following from an email of Slávek's:
> 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 the key and import it into APT:
> sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pks.gpg.cz --recv-keys ED1F4884
>
> Explanation of why I thought of it now:
>
> Yesterday someone on one of my local LUGs' mailing list complained that
> when he upgraded to Vivid his DE went to pot - I won't bore you with the
> details. He went on:
>
> <quote>
> Because of this, I thought I'd give trinity a go, but that doesn't
> appear to have a vivid release yet.
>
> It looks like it's not my day today.
> </quote>
>
> I hastily wrote sending my guess at the repository entry for Vivid, which I
> immediately confirmed here and ratified to him.
>
> He replied:
>
> <quote>
> Thanks for that.
>
> I was trying to follow the instructions from trinitydesktop.org and
> using the pearsoncomputing ppa.
>
> Have I been looking in the wrong place?
>
> [snip]
>
> I used the repository you suggested, and I've installed trinity
> successfully.
> [snip]
> Until you mentioned it I had no idea that there
> were other repos for trinity.
> </quote>
>
> Whilst R14 preliminary-stable-builds has no pretensions to being Stable, it
> is stable and is a valuable resource to us and could be to others.  It
> seems worthy of a mention.
>
> Lisi
>

Friends, I have prepared the following wiki page:

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Preliminary_Stable_Builds

Any suggestions on where to put the page on the wiki to be easily accessible 
to users?

-- 
Slávek