Re: status update LT 2003 CD

[Stefan Gybas <sgybas@provective.de>]

Sven Hoexter wrote:

> As always please give me feedback and I'm still waiting that
> somebody sends me a list of nice apt-get able backport archives
> wich work without major problems for inclusion in our list.

Here is my list:

# Blackdown JDK
deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free

# KDE 3.1
deb ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/kde/stable/latest/Debian woody main

# XFree 4.2, gcc 3.x, Mozilla, SANE, Wine, ALSA, cdrecord, ... (Adrian Bunk)
deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main

# OpenOffice.org
deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ woody main 
contrib

# Apache 2.0, subversion, db4.1, tcl/tk 8.4 (Colin Watson)
deb http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/subversion-woody/ ./

# Updated Samba 2.2 packages (Eloy A. Paris)
deb http://people.debian.org/~peloy/samba stable main

# Acrobat reader, MPlayer, avifile, transcode, codecs, ... (Christian 
Marillat)
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main

# Gnome 2.2, Evolution (James Strandboge)
deb 
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody 
gnome2.2/

# Gimp 1.3, Sylpheed, Pan, vcdimager (Klaus Vormweg)
# requires XFree 4.2 and some Gnome 2.2 libraries
deb http://www.tu-harburg.de/~vkv/debian ./


Some comments:

- All version numbers in these repositories seem to be sane, i.e. the
  version number is lower than the official sarge/sid version so updates
  will hopefully be painless when sarge is released.

- Adrian also has a backport of OpenOffice.org in his contrib section.
  I don't know the difference between his packages and the ones from
  vpn-junkies.de.

- Colin's Apache 2.0 backport is currently at version 2.0.45 which
  contains at least one DoS. But it's the only way to get subversion on
  woody.

- The last two repositories include a lot of library updates. If you add
  them to sources.list you'll need to download a lot of packages after
  you have installed the packages from the CD and your system will be
  very different from standard woody. This is also true for KDE 3.1.


Regards
Stefan Gybas