POLL: Are you tracking new Mint Repo or "Debian Testing" or?

Archived topics about LMDE 1 and LMDE 2

What repos are you tracking?

Tracking "Linux Mint LATEST"
168
41%
Tracking "Linux Mint Incoming" (testing)
67
16%
Tracking "Debian Stable"
22
5%
Tracking "Debian Testing"
113
28%
Tracking "SID" (Unstable)
34
8%
Tracking "Experimental"
4
1%
 
Total votes: 408

Mister.T
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Re: POLL: Are you tracking new Mint Repo or "Debian Testing"

Post by Mister.T »

I am now tracking "Latest" after a brief foray with "Stable"
LMDE4
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DeepDayze
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Re: POLL: Are you tracking new Mint Repo or "Debian Testing"

Post by DeepDayze »

I have LMDE tracking Debian Unstable here...I'm quite that adventurous :mrgreen:
4Orbs

Re: POLL: Are you tracking new Mint Repo or "Debian Testing"

Post by 4Orbs »

Tracking "Incoming" but nothing new has shown up for the past 3 days... now I'm worried. :?
Elisa

Re: POLL: Are you tracking new Mint Repo or "Debian Testing"

Post by Elisa »

Stable are, IMHO, always worth to care about ;-)
And if there is a need any 'latest' app, who knows how to install, then she/he knows... 8)
rhodry
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Re: POLL: Are you tracking new Mint Repo or "Debian Testing"

Post by rhodry »

I voted 'testing' but it is a hybrid. I also use pinning to get some stuff from 'unstable'.
My /etc/apt/preferences is:

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release o=linuxmint
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: origin packages.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: origin mirror.internode.on.net/pub/linuxmint-packages
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 300

and sources.list is:

$ inxi -r
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/linuxmint-packages/ debian main upstream import backport
deb http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian-security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
deb http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main non-free
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera.list
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free #Opera Browser (final releases)

I do all updates (every few days) at command line with:

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade

and I stay aware of 'issues' by reading relevant forums and apt-listchanges. I have been doing this since Day 1 release of LMDE as well as on a number of 2011-09 installs. Never had a need for MintUpdate/Incomiing/Latest; never had a breakage that was not readily fixed by waiting a few days or grabbing the odd library/app from 'unstable'. Pinning keeps upgrades aimed at 'testing'; as well as allowing newer apps when needed/wanted. Learn about pinning people!!

Best damn system I have ever run in 20+ years of Linux use.
cheers,
rhodry.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
it's about learning to dance in the rain.
blueXrider

Re: POLL: Are you tracking new Mint Repo or "Debian Testing"

Post by blueXrider »

I'll bet by next year the "latest Mint" will be Debian
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Re: POLL: Are you tracking new Mint Repo or "Debian Testing"

Post by Praxis »

I'm not quite sure which I'll choose. I guess I was using Mint Repo when I installed on a new laptop on a month-long trip. Here was my sources.list:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
But I got home and I run several straight Debian systems, testing and stable (and oldstable, I love KDE3) and to keep from using up too much of my capped bandwidth (and wasting too much time) I run approx, an apt proxy on my Lenny server. So I just got home and tried to change my sources.list to point to straight Debian testing as filtered through my approx server:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
### deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://lenny:9999/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
### deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://lenny:9999/security/ testing/updates main  contrib non-free
#deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
### deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
deb http://lenny:9999/multimedia/ testing main non-free
Now apt-get dist-upgrade wants to do use amounts of changes (everything was current using my old sources.list).

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 # apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  aptdaemon gcc-4.3 libpulse-browse0 mintinstall python-aptdaemon
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  colord dnet-common dpkg-ruby fonts-dustin gir1.2-cogl-1.0
  gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 icc-profiles lib32tinfo5 libaacplus2 libcamel-1.2-23
  libcogl-common libcogl-pango0 libcogl5 libcolord1 libdnet libebackend-1.2-1
  libedata-book-1.2-9 libedata-cal-1.2-11 libedataserverui-3.0-0 libfame-0.9-1
  libgdata11 libglapi-mesa libgraphite2-2.0.0 libgtkhtml-4.0-0
  libgtkhtml-4.0-common libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0 libgweather-3-0
  libhunspell-1.3-0 libimobiledevice2 libio-socket-inet6-perl libjson0
  liblcms2-2 libmozjs7d libnetfilter-conntrack3 libnl3 libnm-glib4 libnm-util2
  libodbc1 libopenal-data libp11-kit0 libraw2 libroar-compat1 libroar1
  libsmokebase3 libsocket6-perl libsonic0 libtinfo5 libunique-3.0-0
  libv4lconvert0 libxml-commons-external-java libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java
  libxml-sax-base-perl libzthread-2.3-2 ntrack-module-libnl-0 rtkit
  ruby-httpclient ruby-kde4 ruby-phonon ruby-plasma ruby-qt4 ruby-qt4-script
  ruby-qt4-test ruby-qt4-uitools ruby-qt4-webkit xfce4-notifyd xulrunner-7.0
The following packages have been kept back:
  gnome-utils xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev
  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-apm
  xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
  xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128
  xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
  xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
  xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
  xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
  xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
  xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
  xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident
  xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
  xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
The following packages will be upgraded:
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  apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common apt apt-utils aqualung ark
  audacious-plugins audacity autopoint banshee baobab binfmt-support binutils
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930 upgraded, 66 newly installed, 5 to remove and 36 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,125 MB/1,361 MB of archives.
After this operation, 43.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
I guess that would give me a straight Debian testing system, for the most part. The package updates seem fairly minor.

So I guess my questions is why is there a difference? Are the Mint repos a tad older and better tested? I would be glad to download less stuff (testing & sid have huge package churn), but on the other hand most of my local systems do use straight TESTING and continuing to use the Mint repos seems like it would oblige me to download everything twice. I like to stay current but not necessarily cutting edge and wheezy has been a fairly major headache the last few months since the post-SQUEEZE thaw. I think for my straight Debian systems I'll keep them pointed to squeeze when it becomes stable.

It looks like a dist-upgrade would remove a few Minty-packages, I guess I could just do an "apt-get update" which would keep everything and only require 877 MB of new packages instead of 1,361 MB. mintupdate seems to think I need about 1GB of updates with my modified approx sources.list.

For now I think I'll do a "apt-get dist-upgrade -d" which will put all the latest Debian testing packages on my approx server (I'll need them when I update my other systems) but won't install them.
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Re: POLL: Are you tracking new Mint Repo or "Debian Testing"

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It looks like a lot of those new Debian packages were already on my approx server, some packages were downloading at 11.8 MB a second instead of my more normal lowly 200-300kb (thank you ATT DSL, "Now with caps for extra tastiness"®©). I haven't updated any testing systems in > 1 month, so the must have been there at least that long. So I guess there is quite a delta between the Mint Repos and the regular Debian testing ones. But I gather my system will continue to work even if I point my sources.list to the standard testing repositories.
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Post by zerozero »

with the sources.list you had (pointing at latest) you were using update-packs and the last one was around end of august, that's why you are seeing that huge difference now pointing the systems to testing again.
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Post by wb666greene »

How do I tell?

Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list as set up by the installer. I added the deb-src lines not added by softare-properties
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import #Added by software-properties
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
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Post by Praxis »

Thanks for the clarification, zerozero. I think if I only had LMDE sticking to update-packs would be a great idea. less package churn, less breakage. But most of my systems are straight Debian and I'm downloading those packages on to my proxy server anyway (and dealing with the breakage). So I'm now Debian Testing.
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Post by asymmetros »

I quit incoming repos in favor of sid. My final conclusion is that the new mint repos schema is not working right now -at least for me. :(
I was folllowing LMDE from it' s very first days running testing with no real problems. Than, i changed to the new incoming repos -for curiosity and cause there was a request for more users to test them. No breakage occured either.
My last "incoming" upgrade, took place last August, the 30th: about 700 mb's of updates. Today, the calnedar points to October, the 29th and so sign for the 4th update pack :?
I know, Clem has stated clearly that right now, he concentrates in Mint 12. So, i guess that the new package is gonna hit the repos not before the end of November -maybe later. Unfortunately, nothing more specific is announced yet.
I do not want to wait for 3 months or more in order to get a gb (?) of updates. Furthermore, afaik, this delay is not due to LMDE (which is acceptable) but due to something completely different. When i am running a kind of a rolling distro, i want to know a few standard things regarding the frequency of the updates: daily, once a week, once a month? It is not like a "Stable" release when the "release when it is ready" moto works best.
My worst fear is that LMDE is something like a sub-project, not as important for the devs as the main edition. :(

I am fully aware that Clem has not plenty of time -but that arises an obvious question: why they do not abandon the ubuntu-based or the debian-based Mint? A clarification is needed here.

PS1: some mint users are looking elsewhere for a nice kde distro -and some of them are simply gnome refugees hating the new gnome 3. Mint KDE is not here for them. Bad synchronization.
PS2: please count this post just as a feedback for an ex- "incoming repos" follower
PS3: i am reading easily books written in english but i rarely write anything the english. Take it as an excuse :mrgreen:
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Post by zerozero »

asymmetros wrote:I quit incoming repos in favor of sid. My final conclusion is that the new mint repos schema is not working right now -at least for me. :(
I was folllowing LMDE from it' s very first days running testing with no real problems. Than, i changed to the new incoming repos -for curiosity and cause there was a request for more users to test them. No breakage occured either.
My last "incoming" upgrade, took place last August, the 30th: about 700 mb's of updates. Today, the calnedar points to October, the 29th and so sign for the 4th update pack :?
I know, Clem has stated clearly that right now, he concentrates in Mint 12. So, i guess that the new package is gonna hit the repos not before the end of November -maybe later. Unfortunately, nothing more specific is announced yet.
I do not want to wait for 3 months or more in order to get a gb (?) of updates. Furthermore, afaik, this delay is not due to LMDE (which is acceptable) but due to something completely different. When i am running a kind of a rolling distro, i want to know a few standard things regarding the frequency of the updates: daily, once a week, once a month? It is not like a "Stable" release when the "release when it is ready" moto works best.
My worst fear is that LMDE is something like a sub-project, not as important for the devs as the main edition. :(

I am fully aware that Clem has not plenty of time -but that arises an obvious question: why they do not abandon the ubuntu-based or the debian-based Mint? A clarification is needed here.

PS1: some mint users are looking elsewhere for a nice kde distro -and some of them are simply gnome refugees hating the new gnome 3. Mint KDE is not here for them. Bad synchronization.
PS2: please count this post just as a feedback for an ex- "incoming repos" follower
PS3: i am reading easily books written in english but i rarely write anything the english. Take it as an excuse :mrgreen:
Disclaimer: this is in no way any kind of formal information, just my take in reality;

I have to agree with some of the points you raise here, specially the frequency of the UP, but:

- sometimes those UP are dependent on upstream issues that Mint has no control off, and we are in such a moment now, the xserver/nvidia mess is not solved, although we can see now a light in the end of the tunel, and on the other hand gnome-shell is just at the doorstep;

- so what could Clem do? release an UP4 now, before the shell, with a broken xserver, or wait until everything settles down?
asymmetros

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Post by asymmetros »

Thank you for the reply. You see, the initial plan (and the official announcement) mentioned an update pack per month -and, officially, this has not changed. Of course, this is not a simple task and options must be examined: apart from the nvidia things, some upgrades now in sid/wheezy, demanding the remove of mintinstall, vlc or the installation of nautilus (the latter, not too appropriate for a xfce system :wink: )

The ideal plan, i m talking when someone suggests a new upgrading system, is to concentrate on this, to back-up this and to support this -the best he cans. But as you said, gnome-shell is ante portas, not to mention kde and fluxbox editions. (i ve read also -a few days ago- that Clem is interested in mate).
Too many things to be done :? . That 's why i commented about the abandonment of ubuntu or debian as a base.

Maybe, a good alternative is to change the policy for the incoming repos: release when it' s time, not when is ready. Then, the latter will be the motto for the "latest" Mint, the one recommended to the users (as Debian recommends stable and not testing)
Jesse654

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Post by Jesse654 »

I am tracking Latest and Stable. The Latest install was done at the end of last month. The Stable install is in progress--the computer from which I am posting this now. Actually I had installed the original LMDE 201009 back when it came out, but that one got broken (my fault).

Hey, I don't suppose Clem can track these individual LMDEs like he does with the various flavors of Mint that he puts on the monthly stats on the blog...maybe through updates/upgrades? But then, reading these posts, everyone seems to have a little bit different system...(which, of course, is great when considering choices in Linux). Hmm, looking at the September stats, I don't see a "Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases."
Silberwoelfin

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Post by Silberwoelfin »

Mostly I am tracking LMDE Latest on my notebook and LMDE Incoming on my desktop. But sometimes I get impatient and I do one or two updates from Debian testing on my notebook.

As my internet connection at home is really slow, I don't really like those new "update packs". For me, it is more practical to do updates more frequently, but download fewer packages per update than with those "update packs".

Best wishes,
Silberwoelfin
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Post by wyrdoak »

My cousin bricked her XP harddrive this morning. put in a used harddrive and LMDE_Xfce pointing to lastest.

She bricked it so hard for a little while I thought she lost to whole motherboard, the BIOs would even post.

Didn't want to confuse her too much putting in the latest and greatest. And keeps me from having to spend a lot of time with updates.
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Re: POLL: Are you tracking new Mint Repo or "Debian Testing"

Post by evilgoldy »

I've been on Testing since the first .iso of LMDe, but with each kernel change and subsequent updates my system was running slower and slower (old 1.7GHz Celeron, 1.25GB RAM). Finally, I couldn't stand the Gnome 3 being pushed forward, so I reinstalled an old (February?) LMDE image, pointed it to Stable and I'm quite happy with how the thing are now. Fast and snappy. And I can't wonder why isn't there an official Stable iamge for LMDe, since I can't imagine how would it pan out to install latest .iso and try switching to stable?
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Post by tek_heretik »

Is this why I can't install any decent DVD authoring tools? Synaptic is choked right now? Gunna have to fix that or go back to LM 10. =/
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Re: POLL: Are you tracking new Mint Repo or "Debian Testing"

Post by tdockery97 »

Just re-did my LMDE install with repos pointed to Squeeze. I want to have the Gnome 2 desktop for another 2 years or so.
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