Debian :: Why Not Establishing Official User Based Repository
Aug 19, 2011
One may argue that Debian is going mainstream being officially supported by Linux Mint. The chances are high that many users may change from the Ubuntu to the Debian base. By now especially Ubuntu's PPA has grown to a huge respository offering almost anything an user would need. But how does that look like in a Debian world?
There are several approaches to establish a "Debian PPA", amongst them debppa, but there activity is low not to say that they are almost inactive and orphaned. As coming from an Archlinux and Ubuntu perspective I do not know the Debian perspectives enough to reason this but am still curious to know about your motives not establishing a userbased repository.
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Aug 12, 2010
I got debian testing and I want to upgrade to sid. So far this is how my source list looks.
### Official Debian Sid Repository ###
deb [URL]
deb-src [URL]
deb [URL] experimental main
deb-src [URL] experimental main
## Multimedia
deb [URL] sid main
Am I missing any repos that I should have?
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Feb 28, 2011
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Jun 7, 2010
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Jul 6, 2010
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Jul 1, 2011
I am looking for Sid official repos. If they exist please someone direct me to the right place. I was able to find a Debian page with Sid packages. Google is not helping.
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Sep 7, 2010
The Debian Project is proud to announce that the backports service, previously available at [URL].. is now an official Debian service and will be available from backports.debian.org Backports are packages from the testing distribution recompiled for the current stable (or even oldstable) to provide users of the stable distribution with new versions of some packages, like the Linux kernel, the Iceweasel browser or the OpenOffice.org suite, without sacrificing the general stability of the system.
The archive currently has packages backported for the Lenny distribution (how many?), but the infrastructure to accept packages for the upcoming Squeeze release is already in place, to allow Debian Installer images to configure the backports repository by default without generating errors on user systems. The service for Squeeze will be enabled at a later date, after the release.
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Feb 27, 2011
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Jan 2, 2011
Here are 2 questions
1.In the last line of the debian kernel handbook 4.2.2 Applying patches
It is possible to apply extra patches to the source before starting the build. First, you should apply the existing patches by running:
You will then find the patched source in the subdirectories debian/build/source_arch_none (default) and debian/build/source_arch_featureset (featuresets added).
You should apply the extra patches in the appropriate subdirectory. where can I find the "extra patchies" and how to do?
2.Even though More than 8 hours have passed, 4.2.3 Building many packages
To build all possible packages for this architecture, run:
To build all architecture-dependent packages, run:
To build all architecture-independent packages, run:
The 1st command still working. what is the all possible packages? and what I am doing?
I am just trying to rebuild debian linux kernel 2.6.26-2, Did I misunderstand?
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Apr 5, 2010
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May 26, 2010
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Jul 1, 2010
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Oct 21, 2010
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Aug 20, 2010
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Code:
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Aug 29, 2010
want key based so i dont have to put in the password of user or passphraseI have edited the ssh_configfrom #Protocol 2, 1 to Protocol 2 with out the #I have edited the sshd_configPermitRootLogin yes to PermitRootLogin no#PasswordAuthentication no to PasswordAuthentication noi have the same file changes on the other 2 computers. I have 3 computer all together 1 xbuntu and the other 2 are ubuntu. All have the authorized_keys with chmod 400 persmissons id_dsa.pub and known_host fileone has id_dsa and it will not talk to the other computer either
aceraspire@momacer:~$ ls -l .ssh
total 16
-r-------- 1 aceraspire aceraspire 605 2010-03-25 11:21 authorized_keys
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Feb 9, 2010
I currently doing a network emulator program and the features must includes the web-based interface for user configuration. I able to run my program through command line. But I would like to ask how to associate my program to web-based interface for user configuration?
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I'm trying to call a specific variable based on a user selection. For example:
Code: Select a file:
[1] foo.tar
[2] bar.tar
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Code: cp /home/user/$SELECTED_TAR2 /home/user/backup/$SELECTED_TAR2
I was thinking something like this:
Code: echo "Enter a selection: "
read -e SELECTED_NUMBER
cp /home/user/$SELECTED_TAR$SELECTED_NUMBER /home/user/backup
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Feb 21, 2011
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Apr 15, 2011
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I played already with KNetworkManager, NetworkManagerm, KVpn and so on. Further I re-installed each VPN- and network packages multiple times (eg KNetworkManager, NetworkManager, network-manager-pptp, pptp-linux). Further I tested almost every possible VPN configuration (PAP,CHAP,MSCHAP(v2),EAP,MPPE, stateful encryption, no password, BSD compression)... My syslog is as follow:
Code:
Apr 13 18:15:02 defcon-inc pppd[3721]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Apr 13 18:15:02 defcon-inc pppd[3721]: Connection terminated.
Apr 13 18:15:02 defcon-inc pptp[3731]: anon log[callmgr_main:pptp_callmgr.c:258]: Closing connection (shutdown)
Apr 13 18:15:02 defcon-inc pptp[3731]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 12 'Call-Clear-Request'
Apr 13 18:15:02 defcon-inc pptp[3731]: anon log[call_callback:pptp_callmgr.c:79]: Closing connection (call state)
[Code].....
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Aug 13, 2010
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Jan 25, 2011
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May 15, 2010
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