Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE people...

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Dec 14 22:26:17 PST 2014


> On Dec 14, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org <mailto:dirk at hohndel.org>> wrote:
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> > On Dec 14, 2014, at 9:17 PM, Robert C. Helling <robert at euve10195.vserver.de <mailto:robert at euve10195.vserver.de>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> >> Am 15.12.2014 um 02:03 schrieb Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org <mailto:dirk at hohndel.org>>:
> >>
> >>
> >> I need to do a clean Debian install in a VM and test our .deb. Based on what Pedro said this might be all we need.
> >
> > I have been a Debian user for years and often enough there was no Debian package but one for Ubuntu. So I downloaded it and installed it manually. The only problem with that is that it does not update automatically. The user has to realize there is a new version, download that and install. It does not come with
> >
> > apt-get update
> > Apt-get upgrade
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> Oh, interesting observation. It would be easy to add this to our internal update check, though…
> 
> I wish I had started working on this a little earlier… but there’s always so much to do and not enough time :-/
> 
> We can have our own private repository for Debian and instruct users to add that manually to their system. After that, adding a new package requires re-generating the Packages and other metadata files for the repository and signing it. Then the Subsurface updates come with normal apt/aptitude updates from our own repo in  subsurface-divelog.org <http://subsurface-divelog.org/>. I have built such a setup before can grab the "script" later today.

I’d love to have us look into this.
I know several packages that ask users to add a repository on Fedora, so this doesn’t seem excessive
And it would automate the update as people are used to… I assume we could do a release repo and a daily repo, just as we do on Ubuntu…

/D
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