On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM NoisyCoil <noisyc...@disroot.org> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am proud to announce a new mailing list for Debian on Apple Silicon, > > debian-arm-ap...@lists.debian.org, has been created. From now on we will > > move all discussion there, feel free to subscribe if you're interested! > > > > During the last few weeks we had time to test our asahi installer images > > and, after fixing a few bugs, everything's looking quite good. So we are > > moving ahead to provide trixie images in the asahi installer (`curl > > https://bananas-archive.debian.net/install | sh`, follow the > > instructions! We will provide actual docs soon). Of course, at this time > > trixie and testing are practically the same, but by using the trixie > > images users who want to stick to trixie after August 9 will be able to > > do so without changing their apt configuration. > > > > Testers who installed Debian testing and want to switch to trixie right > > now should > > > > - change the content of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bananas.sources to that > > of [1] ('unstable-bananas' -> 'trixie-bananas') > > - change the content of /etc/apt/preferences.d/bananas.pref to that of > > [2] ('a=unstable-bananas' -> 'n=trixie-bananas', note the 'n' in place > > of the 'a' in the latter) > > - as you'd expect, change 'testing' to 'trixie' in the ordinary Debian > > sources and, preferably, add the 'trixie-security' suite to the sources > > > > You are advised to do this before trixie is released to avoid package > > downgrades when testing != trixie, of course. > > > > In other news, work on a proper debian-installer has started, and things > > are looking quite good there too. We have a working proof of concept > > (forked packages at [3]) which we used to install Debian on M1 and M2 > > minis a handful of times. I don't expect we'll be able to release it in > > the near future though: while the asahi installer we are distributing is > > battle-tested with thousands of (mostly but not only Fedora) > > installations, actual development on this debian-installer has only > > started a couple of weeks ago. Initial data suggests the PoC is safe to > > use, but at this time we simply don't know. Anyone interested in > > contributing is very welcome to reach out on #debian-bananas. > > > > To end this email I would like to thank all testers who showed up on > > #debian-bananas offering to help. As I've already said in private, your > > efforts were very much appreciated and made a real difference! > > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuUsersListFAQ>
Cancel, please. I replied to the wrong message. Jeff
