Official Backports Launched!

[Mez]

The Official Backports project has now officially been launched

To add the Official repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list, add the following line

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted

And this will add the official repositories to your list.

You may, if you want remove the old backports repositories from your list, and this won't cause any harm.

Please note that hoary-extras will stay on the old repositories, this will NOT be made official

To report a bug: go here: https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/projects/ubp/ubp-hoary/+filebug

Our Mailing list is here: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports

Please, feel free to join the mailing list, or start reporting bugs!

This is a great step forward for us, and I'm sure everyone's agreed that it's good we've made it.

[stoffe]

How about staging, can (or should) that be removed or moved?

Otherwise, good news! :)

[cafuego]

[QUOTE=Mez]

To add the Official repositories to your /ets/apt/sources.list, add the following line

Typo, you probably mean /etc/apt/sources.list ;-)

[Mez]

[QUOTE=Mez]

To add the Official repositories to your /ets/apt/sources.list, add the following line

Typo, you probably mean /etc/apt/sources.list ;-)
yeah, I did, thanks!

I'll fix that

Staging can be removed if you want, it's up to you... We haven't discusssed what we're going to keep on the old servers yet.

[rwabel]

I had so far these 3 in my sources.list.
deb http://mirror.brianpuccio.net/ubuntu-backports-repository/ hoary-backports-staging main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://mirror.brianpuccio.net/ubuntu-backports-repository/ hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://mirror.brianpuccio.net/ubuntu-backports-repository/ hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted

Is it the second one, which I can replace with the official one?

thanks

[jiyuu0]

Will the mirrormax still be supported?

Is everything there in the official repo?

[AndyAWS]

After changing the Backports server (I kept mirrormax extras and both staging repos) I now have a couple dozen packages showing up as local/obsolete...abiword, amarok, firefox, and totem, to name a few.

I'm guessing things are still being bumped around a bit.

Personally I'm not making any other changes/upgrades until things settle out.
;-)

[bored2k]

Very nice.

[strikeforce]

Will the mirrormax still be supported?

Is everything there in the official repo?

I'm in the same boat. If everything is supported I'll switch I mean I might be forced to switch however I'm hoping everything is still the same and its just switched to a different server :P

[bored2k]

Adding the new line presented me with 13 new updates (from ubp to hoary - one of them being Clearlooks .6). Are they safe?

[Brian Puccio]

I had so far these 3 in my sources.list.
deb http://mirror.brianpuccio.net/ubuntu-backports-repository/ hoary-backports-staging main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://mirror.brianpuccio.net/ubuntu-backports-repository/ hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://mirror.brianpuccio.net/ubuntu-backports-repository/ hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted

Is it the second one, which I can replace with the official one?

thanks

Yes, the second one can be replaced.

I think it needs to be noted that the extras portion of the backports will NOT be on the ubuntu servers. I believe those will still need to be supported by and hosted by the community (read: not canonical) due to legal reasons.

[rwabel]

Yes, the second one can be replaced.

I think it needs to be noted that the extras portion of the backports will NOT be on the ubuntu servers. I believe those will still need to be supported by and hosted by the community (read: not canonical) due to legal reasons.
thanks, then I'm settled :-)

[man.life]

There is a lot of backports which haven't been moved to the official backports repository: firefox, f-spot, abiword, blam, mono...

[JaM]

There is a lot of backports which haven't been moved to the official backports repository: firefox, f-spot, abiword, blam, mono...
If you use the official backports, will it cause troubles when upgrading to breezy?

[Mez]

no, official backports will not cause problems.

Any upgrades tha you may get are completely safe (maybe even safer)

And not everything has moved yet, but will move.

If you could send me links regarding the packages that haven't moved, I can get them built.

[rwabel]

no, official backports will not cause problems.

Any upgrades tha you may get are completely safe (maybe even safer)

And not everything has moved yet, but will move.

If you could send me links regarding the packages that haven't moved, I can get them built.
that means only with the new bp, which got accepted, you won't get in trouble. But it could be with the others, right?

[Velvet Elvis]

So are file names changing with the move, droping the "ubp" from the version info or are these new backports that are showing up?

I'm stuck on dialup and would rather not upgrade the gimp and acroread just to change the name.

[Omnios]

WOOP Great work! If it wasn't for comming accross this post yesterday I wouln't have known of it. And got lots up updates this morn.

[DancingSun]

When can we expect the AMD64 backports be available?

[AndyAWS]

Is there anything we can do to fix the missing packages?
I know it's only an annoyance but I don't like having so many listed as (local or obsolete).
Will re-adding the old backports repo (mirrormax) do the trick, or will that cause other problems?

[AndyAWS]

And not everything has moved yet, but will move.

If you could send me links regarding the packages that haven't moved, I can get them built.


Ok, somehow I missed this, disregard my last post...waiting patiently :-|

I don't think I can help you with the links but I can give you a list of what packages show up as missing in Synaptic on my system, if that will help.

[ShaneAu]

Ok, somehow I missed this, disregard my last post...waiting patiently :-|

I don't think I can help you with the links but I can give you a list of what packages show up as missing in Synaptic on my system, if that will help.
You don't have to move over just yet, why the rush? I think the old mirrors are still being updated with new stuff. (I think)

[AndyAWS]

You're right, there are updates on the Mirrormax backports repo that aren't in the 'Official' one yet.
I guess there's no harm in having both for now, as the packages in the new repo have been renamed and take precidence over the old ones.

[jcohen]

It's only listed as local/obsolete because you removed the old Backports repository and those packages are not available in the new Official Backports repository. This is nothing to worry about. These packages will soon be made available in the Official Backports repository.

[ghostintheshell]

great work, thank you!

I replaced:

deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted

by:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted

and after an update, some files were updated (clearlooks, gimp, xchat, fileroller, easytag, doxygen).

you rulez men.

[AndyAWS]

It's only listed as local/obsolete because you removed the old Backports repository and those packages are not available in the new Official Backports repository. This is nothing to worry about. These packages will soon be made available in the Official Backports repository.


Yes, I knew that...I was just letting someone know that they were not there yet, in case it was an oversight. The solution is just to have both the old and new repos in your sources list for now, until everything is transferred over, or to just ignore the missing packages until they show up.

[Mez]

Please foward any requests for things that arent in official backports to ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com

[samjam]

The Official Backports project has now officially been launched

To add the Official repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list, add the following line

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted


Backports are much appreciated.

While the deb-src to the backports be enabled?
I'm an open source hackery type of guy and lack of back-ports source is becoming awkward for me, I have some package conflicts I could fix if I had backports source (deb-src).

Sam

[AndyAWS]

I believe the Backports are built from Breezy sources, which are in the Breezy src repos.

[allanux]

when i try to execute the command apt-get update at the end of the message I recieved an error message :

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Fetched 84.8kB in 4m37s (306B/s)
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hoary_main_bina ry-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hoary_main_bina ry-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

any familiar with these?

[AgenT]

Retry. Maybe your connection to the server was interrupted.

[evilmrt]

Had the same problem. Ran the command in the terminal (didn't save it..how?). It works now! Thanks! \\:D/

[vrln]

Great to see backports as an official Ubuntu project. Just one question though: when will you start supporting Breezy?

[matthew]

Great to see backports as an official Ubuntu project. Just one question though: when will you start supporting Breezy?
After the development of Breezy is complete and it is realeased and development has begun on the next release of Ubuntu called Dapper Drake.

[DancingSun]

Great to see backports as an official Ubuntu project. Just one question though: when will you start supporting Breezy?
The backports project ports packages that are in the current Ubuntu in development. Right now, that means the project port packages that are included in Breezy Development. So if you are concerned that these nice packages in the backports will not be available in the Breezy release, don't worry, these are already in Breezy.

[DrakeGuan]

The backports project ports packages that are in the current Ubuntu in development. Right now, that means the project port packages that are included in Breezy Development. So if you are concerned that these nice packages in the backports will not be available in the Breezy release, don't worry, these are already in Breezy.
Then, how about "ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net" now? it seems this machine was done for a while?!

[Vicsun]

w32codecs and sun-j2re1.5 packages seem to be missing from both the new official backports and the old mirrormax ones. What gives?

edit: the problem isn't isolated to me (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66843&page=1&pp=10&highlight=%2Aj2re%2A)

[seiflotfy]

for some reason i still have them ionstalled

[idn]

w32codecs and sun-j2re1.5 packages seem to be missing from both the new official backports and the old mirrormax ones. What gives?

edit: the problem isn't isolated to me (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66843&page=1&pp=10&highlight=%2Aj2re%2A)

where can I find theses prackages? I only really want to use the offial repos

[Rory]

I have two basic questions:

1) Before, I was told to add "bleeding" to my backports repo line. Now it doesn't work. What is/was bleeding and is it now dead?

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted bleeding

2) What is "Staging" and should I add it?

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports-staging main universe multiverse restricted


Thanks for your help.

Rory

[Wide]

The Ubuntu staff does a great job of moving in the right direction.

Very good read here, I had update issues then found this, I'll wait untill the smoke clears unless it's a security breach for my system.


:)

[dcstar]

The Official Backports project has now officially been launched
To add the Official repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list, add the following line
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted
And this will add the official repositories to your list.
You may, if you want remove the old backports repositories from your list, and this won't cause any harm.
Please note that hoary-extras will stay on the old repositories, this will NOT be made official
.........
Can someone please PLEASE update things like this (and the other "FAQ"s) with this new information:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=40291
All these existing sources of information still seem to have the wrong data in them, very confusing for anyone trying to use the Backports.

[essexman]

Can someone please PLEASE update things like this (and the other "FAQ"s) with this new information:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=40291
All these existing sources of information still seem to have the wrong data in them, very confusing for anyone trying to use the Backports.

I'm glad I found this thread, how does this get updated in the ubuntuguide? I think this would help folk.

[essexman]

I'm glad I found this thread, how does this get updated in the ubuntuguide? I think this would help folk. And now firefox is working again, I can inset code and smilies:smile::razz:;-)

[John.Michael.Kane]

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main restricted universe multiverse <---- came from this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=69681

Are these both the same. cause when i list them both it get errors..

[jdong]

They are indeed the same, just components have been listed in different orders (which APT ignores anyway)

[Sionide]

I'm still confused by whether it's alright or not, to use the Hoary backports under Breezy?

[mpettitt]

Shouldn't need to, given that all the hoary-backports were from things that were in the breezy development tree, and hence should be in breezy without needing backports...
If something is missing, though, it would probably be worth asking here about the particular package before trying.

[Sionide]

Ah I see

[tomski]

so to confuse things further,
seeing as the hoary-backports were 'from things that were in the breezy development tree'... i should be able to use the brezzy-backports in hoary then yeah
or have i just lost the plot and ran off the edge of the roof!!!