Hi.
I've got a small question, or rather 'request for advice' when it comes to how well bubba3 (recently acquired) plays with aptitude. My use case is simply that I wish to pull in the debian package for maven 3, which is in experimental. Which means tweaking the /etc/apt/sources.list.d files.
My question: are there any strong 'dont do that' objection or things to be careful about when pulling in Debian experimental repos with respect to the bubba-specific .debs?
Thank you so much for this box. So glad to see Debian shipped this way...
New user's registration have been closed due to high spamming and low trafic on this forum. Please contact forum admins directly if you need an account. Thanks !
bubba aptitude and maven 3
Re: bubba aptitude and maven 3
For instance, when I see this in /etc/apt/preferences:
# Upstream main debian, currently squeeze
Package: *
Pin:
release o=Debian, n=elvin, v=4.0r4a, c=main
Pin-Priority: 500
# Upstream contrib debian, currently squeeze
Package: *
Pin:
release o=Debian, n=elvin, v=4.0r4a, c=contrib
Pin-Priority: 400
# Upstream non-free debian, currently squeeze
Package: *
Pin:
release o=Debian, n=elvin, v=4.0r4a, c=non-free
Pin-Priority: 300
I really do wonder what is this 4.0r4a version for Debian, and how I should properly manage my apt-pinning to include non-stable distributions of Debian, such as wheezy, sid or experimental.
For now, I'm tempted to remove these v=4.0r4a declarations as I'm unable to track them in excito's or Debian's repositories. And replace them by other declarations. Would appreciate knowing upfront whether this is a good or bad idead.
Thanks.
# Upstream main debian, currently squeeze
Package: *
Pin:
release o=Debian, n=elvin, v=4.0r4a, c=main
Pin-Priority: 500
# Upstream contrib debian, currently squeeze
Package: *
Pin:
release o=Debian, n=elvin, v=4.0r4a, c=contrib
Pin-Priority: 400
# Upstream non-free debian, currently squeeze
Package: *
Pin:
release o=Debian, n=elvin, v=4.0r4a, c=non-free
Pin-Priority: 300
I really do wonder what is this 4.0r4a version for Debian, and how I should properly manage my apt-pinning to include non-stable distributions of Debian, such as wheezy, sid or experimental.
For now, I'm tempted to remove these v=4.0r4a declarations as I'm unable to track them in excito's or Debian's repositories. And replace them by other declarations. Would appreciate knowing upfront whether this is a good or bad idead.
Thanks.
Re: bubba aptitude and maven 3
If you only want maven 3 you don't really need the deb package. Just download it from http://maven.apache.org/download.html , extract it (tar -xvf filename) and add add the bin folder to $PATH.
Re: bubba aptitude and maven 3
Well, not only. I was essentially searching at the best way to hook in non-stable Debian packages than specifically worrying about maven 3. Maven 3 was just a showcase... Thanks anyway.