Norbert Tretkowski - Backports

Semi-official backports of the Debian MySQL packages

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:45:00 +0200

MySQL 5.1 was uploaded to Debian unstable, and until we get it into testing, I am providing semi-official up-to-date backports of MySQL 5.1.36 and 5.0.84 for i386 and amd64 in my home directory on people.debian.org. I am providing MySQL 5.0.84 for Debian 4.0 and 5.0, and MySQL 5.1.36 for Debian 5.0. If you need MySQL 5.1.36 for Debian 4.0 as well, please let me know.

MySQL 5.0.84 for Debian 4.0:

deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/mysql-dfsg-5.0/ etch-backports main

MySQL 5.0.84 for Debian 5.0:

deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/mysql-dfsg-5.0/ lenny-backports main

MySQL 5.1.36 for Debian 5.0:

deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/mysql-dfsg-5.1/ lenny-backports main

When MySQL 5.1.36 (or newer) made it into testing, I am going to move the MySQL 5.1 backport to backports.org, where it belongs. MySQL 5.0 will then completely disappear from the development branches of Debian.

Beware that the MySQL 5.1 packages do not include MySQL Cluster support, it was dropped from MySQL 5.1 a while ago, and is now available as a separate product. Unfortunately MySQL Cluster is not yet available in Debian, packaging it is one of the big items on my TODO list.

First backports for lenny available

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:22:50 +0100

Alexander Wirt just wrote a mail to our mailinglist to announce that lenny-backports suite is ready for uploads. We will of course continue supporting etch-backports with security updates as long as etch will be supported by the Debian security team.

Happy backporting!

5 years backports.org

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:25:00 +0200

Exactly 5 years ago, on the 27th May 2003 after a discussion with my former boss and some colleagues, the domain backports.org was registered. I originally planned to write a detailed article about the last 5 years, but unfortunately didn't found the time. I'll try to catch up on this as soon as possible.

Unexpected backports.org downtime

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:03:47 +0100

Due to hardware problems with the fibre channel controller and a read-only mounted filesystem as a result, backports.org is currently unavailable. It will last at least until tomorrow morning, just use one of our mirrors in the meanwhile.

Security support for sarge-backports to be terminated

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:36:53 +0100

Security support for Debian 3.1 (aka sarge) will be terminated on March 31st this year. We decided to terminate the security support for the sarge backports archive on backports.org at the same time, there will be no more updates after March 31st.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the sarge backports archive.

Important update for linux-2.6 backport

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:42:00 +0100

Today I uploaded an updated backport of the linux-2.6 package. It is based on 2.6.22-6, which was the last 2.6.22 series kernel available in Debian unstable, and includes the upstream patches from 2.6.22.12 (2.6.22.12-rc1 was included in 2.6.22-6) up to 2.6.22.18 (the user pointer access fix in get_iovec_page_array(), main reason for this update), and an update to the latest vserver patch.

Downtime

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:44:31 +0100

Scheduled downtime of the backports.org main machine on Friday morning at about 09:00 CET. Please do not drop me mails, or try to reach me on the phone because you think you have to tell me that the machine is down (yes, it already happened in the past), I am aware of it.

Backport of MySQL 5.1 package for etch

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:12:37 +0200

For those of you who want to use MySQL 5.1 on etch, I prepared a backport from the experimental package of MySQL 5.1.22-rc. It's available for amd64 and i386, but will not be uploaded to the backports.org archive until there's a stable release in lenny.

Take a look at the list of Open Issues in MySQL 5.1 before upgrading your servers.

GPLv3 and backports.org

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:31:32 +0200

Santiago Vila uploaded a backport of base-files 4.0.1 to backports.org, because the package from etch doesn't include the GPLv3 license. If you're going to upload the backport of a package which software is under the GPLv3, please make sure it depends on at least the version of the base-files backport.

Updated policy

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:56:00 +0200

Thanks to Alexander Wirt we now have an updated backports.org policy, please take a look at his mail to our mailinglist if you are responsible for one or more backports. The two most important changes are a new version number scheme and the now required inclusion of more changelog entries in the changes file.

Backports for etch available

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:01:00 +0200

Alexander Wirt wrote it to our mailinglist already, there's a etch-backports suite on backports.org since a while. Please read his mail and check the mailinglist archive before contacting me or the mailinglist. Happy backporting.

On a related note, I started working on a GNOME 2.18 backport for etch, but didn't find the time to finish it yet.

GNOME 2.16 backport for etch

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:01:00 +0100

During the last days I prepared a GNOME 2.16 backport for etch. My primary goal was to provide the gnome-desktop-environment meta-package and all of it's dependencies. The only outstanding problem is that you have to put the packages libeel2-data and libvte-common on hold before upgrading from GNOME 2.14 to GNOME 2.16.

Beside the dependencies of the gnome-desktop-environment meta-package I also added up-to-date backports of pam-keyring, seahorse, gossip, xchat-gnome and liferea.

Debian 3.1r5 might break apt 0.6 from backports.org

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:41:00 +0100

There was an article on Debian Times about a problem with apt 0.6 from backports.org and the key which was used to sign the new release. Beside the fact that I still don't know why this article was published without informing me about the actual problem, I fixed it yesterday in the afternoon by providing updated backports of apt and debian-archive-keyring.

Solution: Upgrade to the latest backports of apt 0.6.46.4~bpo.1 and debian-archive-keyring 2006.11.22~bpo.2.

Broken yaird backport

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:43:00 +0100

People keep asking me why installing kernel-images from backports.org fails, and what's the workaround. The reason why installing the packages fails is a broken yaird backport. Because nobody seems interested in fixing it, I just removed yaird from the backports.org archive. Use initramfs-tools instead, it works fine.

Productive weekend

norbert@tretkowski.de (Norbert Tretkowski) — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:36:00 +0200

Last weekend was quite productive. First, Joerg Jaspert updated the dak installation on backports.org, which means we can also use ~ in version numbers. What does it mean? We no longer need to lower the Debian revision of the version number, 1.2.3-4 becomes 1.2.3-4~foo instead 1.2.3-3foo. Martin F. Krafft suggested to use 1.2.3-4~bpo.1 instead 1.2.3-4~bpo1, and I like the idea, it looks indeed better. Daniel Baumann already modified the contribute page on our website.

Speaking about the website... it's now based on a wiki, thanks to Sebastian Harl, who implemented the old website design into the new Dokuwiki installation. If you want an account to edit something, just drop me a mail.