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/project...hoary/+filebug

Our Mailing list is here: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/list...untu-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=cafuego]

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...ts-repository/ hoary-backports-staging main universe multiverse restricted

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

deb http://mirror.brianpuccio.net/ubuntu...ts-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

[bored2k]

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