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Etch repositories removed

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:15:05 +0000

As already announced in this post, the repositories for Etch have been removed, now that security support for Etch has ended. If you haven’t upgraded to Lenny yet, now is definately the time to do so…

New repository layout, new GPG key

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:49:55 +0000

In the quest for more quality, functionality and ease of administration, the Lenny repositories have been converted to new repositories, that are managed by reprepro. Fortunately, the impact for you as a user is small. The URLs to the repositories have changed (a path component /debian was added), so please update your sources.list to make use of the following URLs:

deb http://debian.dev-zero.nl/debian lenny-backports main
deb http://debian.dev-zero.nl/debian lenny-custom main
deb http://debian.dev-zero.nl/debian lenny-experimental main

deb-src http://debian.dev-zero.nl/debian lenny-backports main
deb-src http://debian.dev-zero.nl/debian lenny-custom main
deb-src http://debian.dev-zero.nl/debian lenny-experimental main

However, the old URLs still work, and will be rewritten on the server to the new, correct location.

Reprepro also makes it easy to automatically sign the Release files. Because of that, a new GPG key has been created,which will be used to sign the repository from now on. If you run aptitude update on your DevZero-enabled servers now, you will see Aptitude complain about the keys:

W: GPG error: http://debian.dev-zero.nl lenny-backports Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 6C28A78FCE3CD5E4

To update the key, upgrade the debian-devzero-keyring package to version 2010.02.09. Aptitude will tell you that you are trying to install an untrusted package and ask you if you are certain about that. Of course you are

There are two alternative ways to install the new key into Apt’s keyring. The first one is:

gpg –keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu –recv-keys CE3CD5E4
gpg –export CE3CD5E4 | sudo apt-key add -

And the second one is:

wget -q -O – http://debian.dev-zero.nl/devzero.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Some removals, Etch repositories

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:27:45 +0000

Today, the following packages were removed from the archive:

Exim 4.71, from lenny-experimental. It is now available on Backports.org.
Libapache-mod-security 2.5.9, from lenny-backports. It was outdated, and version 2.5.11 is available on Bpo.
PHP 5.3.0-3 (i386) and 5.3.1-1 (amd64), from lenny-experimental. The latest version, 5.3.1-3, is now available in lenny-custom.

Update 23:06h:

Sqlite3 3.6.18, from lenny-backports. It was outdated, version 3.6.21 is available on Bpo.

Furthermore, The Debian Security Team decided that security support for Debian Etch will end on February 15th. Since this means that no-one should run Etch anymore, the repositories on debian.dev-zero.nl (etch-backports and etch-custom) have lost their value (if they had any left, since the packages haven’t been updated for ages…) and will be deleted.

The Debian Security Team

Lenny-experimental archive

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:21:36 +0000

Today, a new archive was added to this repository, named lenny-experimental. It serves the same purpose as the experimental archive of Debian itself, namely to serve packages, that are experimental in one way or an other. In any case, these packages may not be considered stable and may or may not work as expected.

The first set of packages that can be found in lenny-experimental, is PHP 5.3. More information follows in a separate post.

To use the archive, put the following in your sources.list:

deb http://debian.dev-zero.nl/debian lenny-experimental main

To install a package, use:

# aptitude -t lenny-experimental install

As with backports and custom, packages from experimental have a default priority of 1, so if you use any of them, please use appropriate pinning to receive updates. You can achieve this by putting the following in /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: release lenny-experimental
Pin-Priority: 120

GPG key updated

admin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:48:22 +0000

From now on, the Release files for the repositories at debian.dev-zero.nl will be signed with a new GPG key. To install packages from these repositories, you need to add that new key to your apt keyring.

There are two ways to do that. The simplest way:

aptitude install debian-devzero-keyring

The alternative way:

gpg –keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu –recv-keys F842EC0F

gpg –export F842EC0F | sudo apt-key add -