On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 08:11:47PM -0600, Sven Semmler wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 01:01:28AM +0000, Unman wrote: > > When I post in these mailing lists I don't speak for Qubes: I'm posting > > as a Qubes user. I think there may be some people who aren't confident > > enough, or don't have time, to build Ubuntu templates for themselves, so > > I build example Templates and make them available. I also host repos to > > serve deb packages for Ubuntu. > > I use a dedicated machine for building, a caching proxy to save > > downloads, and run through Tor. Is that secure and reliable? > > > > That said, I STRONGLY recommend that you build these templates for > > yourself. > > Done. My only open question now is: how do I get qubes-specific > updates? > > I know I could just hook up to unman's repos, but if I wanted to do it > myself? > > - I have the qubes-builder setup and have successfully created a > bionic template (using it right now). > > - How do I know there are changes to the qubes-* packages? Can I monitor > that on Github somehow? Just run qubes-builder every weekend? > > - Obviously I don't want to redo all my customizations to the template > every time there are new packages. Where in the qubes-builder output > can I find the respective packages? I suppose I simply qvm-copy them > into my template and then run 'apt install'? >
Good stuff. It's somewhat difficult to see exactly what's happening in Github. A "foolproof" method would be to watch for update-notifications for Debian templates, and rebuilding accordingly. (If you generally use stable you might care to set up a "testing" template and qube for this purpose.) The packages are in qubes-packages-mirror-repo, in the "deb" directory under vm name. You can indeed just copy them in and install. unman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20200214120751.GC688%40thirdeyesecurity.org.
