Thorsten, > >> keep up with it and manage it somehow to get the stable version as > >> well built so that we can offer a stable distri to our users instead > > Maybe we can do a jessie-m68k like etch-m68k, basically a stabilised > snapshot of unstable at that time (hand-picked, with edos-debcheck, > to ensure installability)?
That would be a huge step forward. > > We can’t do the normal release process, as that needs a testing > distribution, which isn’t done in Debian-Ports, and we cannot > normally just rebuild stable because > ⓐ we often need patched packages (not that big a problem, we could > just override these with packages from m68k-unstable/-unreleased > or apply them to the stable versions, this is actually quite > manageable, but best done outside of Debian-Ports too) > ⓑ how would you go building them, considering we've got only > unstable right now? Building a stable release from unstable > is bound to introduce dependencies on newer packages than > were in a stable release. > That’s why I think this isn’t as easy as it sounds. (Besides, I’m > running unstable on my laptop at work. Especially during the freeze, > it’s very agreeable.) We'd have to keep unstable for a full release cycle before we can hope to end up with something like stable. First things first please. > But right now, let’s not talk about releases. Let’s build unstable. > To quote Theo: Shut up and hack^Wbuild! I don’t want to see any more > blahblah about building (without any actual building going on) here > before http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/graph2-week-big.png has > the blue graph overtake the pink one ;-) I'll shut up already. > That being said, this is what you should do (after gpg-verifying > this message): > > somebox$ sudo apt-key add - <<'EOF' > - -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MirBSD) > > mQENBEjCxooBCACytVdobmcvuc3u8QDORGDtocpl3siHq8w1tVLgvD5HyBZ7w3rv > AQZYgm3tTxEVCMsAuj3aBJmWJvQdjfhl0lQEFilelEgQtA+Kbf5RnMVlElIALgJN > Sx6g9tJDD+o2mpE83nFzk3V8qCyxu18TiZDnJOG9+xobzqpDoRJpmyhspLa7E8Io > M2ZV5BHF6/i544UCOTlldHRAvSJIlxx4Rux9d2F1eC8aDbvIc1P4xqEFHPXJ3e3U > xLtax87vYRmmCFnFJGE7YQvuoIKmkckpfcFcB9E2RIXajX3tvbgqybxv+cDxcO1f > BbfKBiaKI+bKNtfjUs/FerH+rwl/COqELGUXABEBAAGJATcEHwECACEFAkjC1ZQX > DIABkDGVXnqXpP2jKyuGdrU0sumQB+ACBwAACgkQ9+l06UBUIt2fqwf+Jz/c7xaG > K5mGh+NHyQ/LXM20lAKMkt1VdLimKsIemOPeBpA9G/j183kuGRMvTy1GVgpI0rIX > bxiJMff5TH+OBh5QhxiuIaNOmTK9WnFE1r3XM1POyBJgld0no9pO7gtBynQyIPmO > AAPOSE9gpM4a+Xv+LcHMJLSWlQZ8SsZk2ccCRXvs9TGJsTmt+7l+LWCq9ixlUrm1 > UQcnOk2oq+UZsRMY47CnlSuD21uzQBDRtfdBjQOM4gC7iM2ioikSXxHmI+ctLooN > efOurLf0OWv42CoQohQPgxY4D9KaMJQOcehwd/+Oo2p8RHIug9VA/8rQHrtdRHrq > dYi42GvvPR6HVbRDVGhvcnN0ZW4gR2xhc2VyIChQYWNrYWdlIHNpZ25pbmcga2V5 > IGZvciB3dGYgZGVicykgPHRnQGZyZWV3cnQub3JnPokBOAQTAQIAIgIbAwIeAQIX > gAQLCQQHAxUDCgMWAgAFAk5mYeIFCQlmAlMACgkQ9+l06UBUIt0wAQgAofuWIMu7 > mAj7SnpGUIMgL8E2xYaKOREZv7sk9Z/9PoHp8aQRhjVD/UWkkIiYMJffU/XtAZuu > qAtRO13/7tYf4rd7fhXkVS0VI4LO5Mk2yfmJLxAm8dUeIlk3/pRk82wpt/226+Dg > l7OZALhVSLJwHl9BEGknRBQES+VJhbEvKTW+w/KUC9TmmPIGLgjerivvSlq8FWzA > qrFvXGi0zfP8GhSUNbf9P7FHe285l8t78sg16nZr6SyVR1YGCcGLzKLcqZKLCRrg > wesy709LHPePJhX26DcvJVwk7GWzsl+0+btkNHTO6FXG9b0Cf/ffSIXiHVGYm/ix > 3ps4RepDTBCMgA== > =z6WJ > - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > EOF > somebox$ sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/dp cross main > >>/etc/apt/sources.list' > # note I choose the "cross" repo because it does not contain > # any packages that would replace your normal debian packages > # during a dist-upgrade, unlike some others of mine > somebox$ sudo apt-get update > somebox$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends wtf-debian-keyring > # now you can do, for example > somebox$ sudo cowbuilder --create --mirror http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/dp \ > --distribution sid --debootstrap debootstrap \ > --debootstrapopts --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/wtf-debian-keyring.gpg \ > --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd \ > --debootstrapopts > --include=apt,wtf-debian-keyring,debian-ports-archive-keyring > # or this (even with https); omit "--variant=buildd" to get > # a regular debian installation > somebox$ sudo debootstrap --variant=buildd \ > --include=apt,wtf-debian-keyring,debian-ports-archive-keyring \ > sid /target http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/dp > # now go read https://www.freewrt.org/~tg/sources.txt Thanks, I'll try that. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
