This is a repo of Debian i386 packaged
versions of my stuff for use with
apt instead of individual
.deb downloads. The tree starts at
ftp://download.tuxfamily.org/user42/debian/,
or see the
tree
listing.
Point apt-get to the repo with the following line in your
/etc/apt/sources.list file, then
"apt-get
update" to fetch the indexes.
deb https://download.tuxfamily.org/user42/debian user42 main other deb-src https://download.tuxfamily.org/user42/debian user42 main other
Or ftp://download... or http://download... as
desired. Browse through the Packages files directly for all the contents,
main Packages
other Packages
The packages were built on an i386 of what is now a distinctly past version of "testing", stuck for a couple of reasons. All the Emacs things and most of the Perl are architecture "all". There's an amd64 pool which has just those "all" packages. On other archs something like the following might work to take just the "all" packages (or perhaps amd64 instead of i386, and new enough apt),
deb [arch=i386] https://download.tuxfamily.org/user42/debian user42 main other
Using "amd64" for the "all" packages was a mistake, since may eventually have some actual amd64.
The deb-src line shown above is only needed to download sources
with apt-get source PACKAGENAME. Each .orig.tar.gz
is identical to the source .tar.gz, but renamed to the deb
package name. Each .diff.gz is empty (except on a binary
rebuild) since the tar includes a debian dir.
Currently not all sources are in the repo, but going to have most eventually.
The intended use is convenient rebuilding of packages against newer or older
libraries. The simplest is by apt, but things like
pbuilder can do whole environments and chains of depends.
apt-get source --compile libfile-locate-iterator-perl
If tests fail for no good reason then try skipping with
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck apt-get source --compile ...
The Perl XS packages are built for Perl 5.32.0 but can be rebuilt from source for other versions. Perl minor versions are usually upwardly binary compatible but major versions are not, forcing you to go in lock-step with irritating rebuilds of all packages.
On non-i386, it might work to build and install binary dependencies
individually and then let apt-get take the "all" packages as
above.
The Emacs packages have debhelper blobs which only work with
emacsen-common
version 2 and up. Those emacsen-common bits were designed to
reduce dependencies but result in an undeclared dependency on its version 2 or
higher. That version is now a while ago. The symptom of running with earlier
is no byte compiling at package install.
The repo and .dsc files are signed with my
key. The Release file etc has SHA256 digests signed by my 4096R which
should be big enough for Apt post refusing
SHA-1 (due to whatever computing power or algorithms approaching the time when
it might no longer be secure).
With recent Apt, it may be necessary to tell Apt to trust my key or it won't
even show packages. This is annoying but it's an end-to-end check.
Previously you could answer yes to "without verification" warnings, or
apt-get --allow-unauthenticated. One way is to copy my public
keyring file
user42_kevin.gpg
to
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/user42_kevin.gpg
But examine or verify first of course (gpg --list-keys,
--list-sigs, etc). Read more in the apt-key and/or
apt-secure man pages, or
the Debian wiki on SecureApt.
You can always review and dpkg -i filename.deb individual files.
Each source .dsc has an internal signature from
my key. This is a Gnu PG clear sign and should be
verified by dscverify (from the
devscripts
package) since that checks the .orig.tar.gz and
.diff.gz files actually have the SHAs listed in the
.dsc.
dscverify --keyring user42_kevin.gpg FILENAME.dsc
Instead of --keyring option each time, you can list my keyring
file in environment variable DSCVERIFY_KEYRINGS or file
/etc/devscripts.conf, or add my key to
~/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg.
All of tuxfamily can be reached by https. This is recommended
for security if going to actually run something. The HTTPS SSL certificate is
from tuxfamily.
The "other" packages are things from elsewhere put into debs. No guarantees about the quality, security, etc, except they seem fine. Each maintainer version is "0.1" or "0.2" so if/when there's a packaged version in the Debian archive then that will be higher and should be preferred by apt etc. Things with their own descriptions and notes include,
tvtwm
window manager
Perl packages are built with
dh-make-perl.
The source .diff.gz is as generated by dh-make-perl
at the time, possibly with tweaks to the Depends, or minor bug fixes.
libpngwriter0c2 and libpngwriter0-dev are copied
from snapshot.debian.org
as they're no longer in the Debian archive. Both use libpng12
(also copied). The corresponding libpng12-dev is no longer
current, but installing just the libpng12 library part is fine.
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