> On Dec 14, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Miika Turkia <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 14, 2014, at 9:17 PM, Robert C. Helling <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> >> Am 15.12.2014 um 02:03 schrieb Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]
> >> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
>
> 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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