HEADS UP! IMPORTANT changes for Emdebian Grip unstable/sid! Turns out that apt won't accept changing the actual distribution via symlinks. (At least not when also combining multiple components into a single component.) It works between codename & suite but not when changing both codename & suite. i.e. we've gone from sid&unstable to sid-grip&unstable-grip. W: Conflicting distribution: http://www.emdebian.org sid InRelease (expected sid but got sid-grip) :-( Neither will apt accept symlinks for components back to main: W: Failed to fetch http://www.emdebian.org/grip/dists/sid-grip/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'dev/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) So, the integration into Debian is a one way process. Sorry. Did try etc. I can't maintain two versions of unstable and leaving the old unstable to completely rot whilst unstable-grip moves ahead is just as bad. (Indeed, that is the worst of all worlds because then some using unstable would not notice the problem.) At least this way, (as of now), everyone using Emdebian Grip unstable will certainly know that there is a problem. I did raise a warning about such things and I was hoping to avoid this kind of interruption but here it is. I haven't touched wheezy, so wheezy and wheezy-grip exist in parallel with wheezy retaining the old components and wheezy-grip having everything in main, just like sid-grip. However, again, wheezy will not be updated (indeed it is likely to become ReadOnly v.soon) and only wheezy-grip will be a target for uploads from the new mechanism with wheezy-proposed-updates-grip coming into effect once Wheezy enters freeze next year. Recommendations on what to do with wheezy are welcome... wheezy itself isn't in a particularly good state due to missing packages and those will only get added to wheezy-grip, so maybe it is best to blow away wheezy too. However, I'll wait for responses before I do that. Changes to apt sources (going on the website soon): deb http://www.emdebian.org/grip unstable main dev debug java doc becomes: deb http://www.emdebian.org/grip unstable-grip main It is called unstable for a reason but I was hoping to avoid this... To get ahead of the game on wheezy, similar changes will work: deb http://www.emdebian.org/grip testing main dev debug java doc becomes: deb http://www.emdebian.org/grip testing-grip main If you are using sid rather than unstable, use sid-grip. If you are using wheezy rather than testing, use wheezy-grip. Squeeze, squeeze-proposed-updates, lenny and lenny-proposed-updates are NOT AFFECTED in any way. These changes always start with unstable and this is why. There is currently no need to change either stable or oldstable for the Debian Integration to proceed. It would be just an extra step when upgrading from squeeze to wheezy to remove the extra components when editing the apt sources lists. All the same packages, at the same versions, exist in the new suites but only the *-grip ones will get updates as the Debian integration scripts take over the work. The ftp.uk.debian.org/emdebian/grip mirror will update to the same status as www.emdebian.org overnight. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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