June 2023 - PureOS-project - Purism Mailing Lists

PureOS 11 (Crimson) open for development!
by Matthias Klumpp 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

Hello! The initial synchronization with Debian has finished, and `crimson` is now open for development! Consequently, packages from `landing` are migrating to the `crimson` suite now. You can upload packages for crimson by simply targeting "crimson" in your debian/changelog and upload them to the usual place. Please check your dput.cf file for the right configuration, as with the switch to the latest Laniakea version we no longer accept FTP uploads but only uploads via HTTPS instead (which has many security benefits). Currently, both landing and crimson are still very much broken in terms of package installability, but we will be working on resolving these kinds of issues in the next days and weeks. You can find a list of packages that need to be merged with Debian at: https://master.pureos.net/sync/7/issues A list of current issues in the landing suite can be found here: https://master.pureos.net/depcheck/pureos/landing/binary/amd64/1 Cheers, Matthias

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PureOS 11 open for development on 12.06., landing receiving crimson packages
by Matthias Klumpp 08 Jun '23

08 Jun '23

Hello! This is a short reminder that with the Laniakea migration completed, we will be opening PureOS 11 (crimson) for development on 12.June (next Monday). This also means that from that point on, the landing suite of PureOS will receive packages from Debian again, and will be the development testing ground for crimson. In addition to that, migration delays from landing to crimson will be reduced to two days or less. Furthermore, we will deprecate PureOS 9 (amber) soon, but details for that will be made public later. In any case, if you haven't upgraded yet, upgrading to PureOS 10 is highly recommended. Thank you & happy hacking! Matthias Klumpp

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Laniakea Upgrade on Repo/Master Server Imminent
by Matthias Klumpp 03 Jun '23

03 Jun '23

Hello! In order to greatly modernize our infrastructure, we will be upgrading to a newer version of Laniakea[1], the tool that manages the PureOS archive. Previous versions of Laniakea were based on dak, the Debian Archive Kit. This caused numerous inefficiencies and was a lot harder to maintain compared to the new solution, where Laniakea has integrated all archive management capabilities. Upgrading will also allow us to iterate on PureOS a lot faster. The new system has been tested for a while on a scratch instance and has been running well, so we might switch in the following days on our production instance. This weekend I will be running some tests and kick off the migration in case no issues are found (and otherwise revert and try again a week later). During the upgrade time, software.pureos.net, master.pureos.net and the upload service will not be available. After the upgrade, you will need to adjust your dput.cf file to upload to the new location, since we will be decommissioning FTP uploads as well (and make our security people very happy in the process). There are a few known issues with the new Laniakea version: * Laniakea implements the Debian Archive / APT repositories based on the modern layout specification. Unfortunately we found out far too late that debootstrap did not support the modern layout yet, so in order to bootstrap PureOS, you will need to get our patched debootstrap version: https://repo.pureos.net/pureos/pool/main/d/debootstrap/ Alternatively you can also use mmdebstrap. APT itself and all other tools can already understand the "new" archive layout for multiple Debian releases. * Changelog files on the metadata server will initially not be available until support for this feature is restored in Laniakea. * In the first days post-migration there might be issues with receiving e-mails from the archive server - we will resolve those as soon as possible. The Matrix bot will not be affected. This update is extremely large and potentially very disruptive, so please keep an eye out for any unusual issues and let me know about them. Cheers, Matthias [1]: https://github.com/lkhq/laniakea

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