warty-updates repository?

nocturn ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Tue Jan 4 12:39:01 UTC 2005


Ari Torhamo Wrote: 
> 
> This is the first time I hear about warty-updates repository and it's
> not even mentioned in the Ubuntu web page (I did a search with
> "warty-updates" and the only relevat result was Markus Hubig's
> repository and I guess we are not talking about it). I haven't even
> seen
> it mentioned on this list before (it might have passed my eyes though
> because of the volume of the list). Downloading bug fixes sounds
> reasonable to me and I propably would have added this repository to
> Synaptic long time ago if I would have known about it (I was sure I
> already know everything I need to know about repositories - in
> particular what are the official repositories... sigh)
> 
> This makes me intrested in the way information is gatherd to and
> organized in the Ubuntu web page. Is there, to say, a plan of what
> things should be found there and how they should be organized. It
> would
> seem good to have a way of making sure that at least things that most
> people would assume to be found would find their way in. Wiki is a
> great
> way to enable people to contribute information, but obviously having a
> wiki doesn't guarantee that an important thing gets documented or that
> anyone even comes to think of that it should be documented.
> 
> I hope this doesn't sound like I'm complaining. I just don't have many
> ways to contribute to the community and I wish that this comment would
> be usefull somehow :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ari
> 

Same here, I'm certainly interested in this.
It is nice that they keep this in a sperate repo, and that it is not
enabled by default.... but

even multiverse is provided in sources.list (although commented), would
this not be the best way to handle updates too?


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nocturn




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