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I am hosting a package repository for various programs, mainly software that isn't in the official Debian release. Currently the repo is minimal, but eventually it may grow to be similar to my Gentoo overlay in contents.
Currently the repository includes:
I am publishing packages for Debian Stable (Bookworm) and Testing
(Trixie). Sid users, please use the testing suite. I do not plan
to freeze package versions in the stable suite, so both stable and testing
will receive package updates, although stable will receive updates at a slower
pace. Use APT holds or pinning if you wish to prevent upgrades.
See apt-mark(8) or apt_preferences(5) for more
information on these. Packages for old stable releases will be kept
around, but not updated.
Also, this repository only contains amd64 packages, since that is the only architecture I run.
The repository is hosted at apt.khumba.net. The packages here have a lower default priority, like the Debian backports repositories, so APT will not automatically transition from official Debian packages to these ones when packages exist in both repositories, but you will receive updates of these packages once selected. The following "suites" or "distributions" are available, with the three standard components (main, contrib, non-free; no firmware here!).
The suites have these names so that they are easy to differentiate from standard Debian packages in command line APT output.
To use this repository, create an APT sources file
at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/khumba.sources with the contents
below, replacing RELEASE with your version of Debian. You will need to
download and install the signing key file
yourself (last updated 2023-09-22), after which you can run apt
update and install packages from here.
Types: deb deb-src URIs: https://apt.khumba.net/ Suites: kh-RELEASE-extras Components: main contrib non-free Architectures: amd64 Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/khumba.asc
You can get all of this set up with the following commands, run as root:
# mkdir -p /etc/apt/{keyrings,sources.list.d}
# wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/khumba.asc https://khumba.net/debian/khumba.asc
# wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/khumba.sources https://khumba.net/debian/khumba-bookworm.sources
(^ replace "bookworm" with "trixie" for testing and unstable ^)
# apt update
After this, I recommend installing the kh-archive-keyring package
and changing your Signed-By line above to point to the file this
package installs. For security, the key I use to sign this repo
eventually expires, at which point you would need to redownload the key file
by hand. Performing these extra steps now avoids needing to redownload
the file in the future, because package updates can automatically provide the
latest key. Again as root:
# apt install kh-archive-keyring # sed -i 's,/etc/apt/keyrings/khumba.asc,/usr/share/keyrings/khumba.asc,g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/khumba.sources # apt update
To see all available packages, run:
$ apt list '?origin(khumba)'
To install an updated package that already exists at a lower version in Debian, run one of the following commands.
# apt install <package>/kh-bookworm-extras - or - # apt install -t kh-bookworm-extras <package>
Most package versions follow the scheme
<upstream_version>-<A>kh<B>.<C>.
Upstream version strings follow the same rules as regular Debian
packages. For packages based on an official Debian
package, A is the Debian revision that the package is
based on. For packages unique to this repository, A is
zero. B is the release number of Debian that the
package was built for; Bookworm is 12. C starts at
one and counts the number of times I have released this upstream package
version for this Debian version. Occasionally +kh or some
joiner other than just kh may be used, to ensure proper sorting
relative to official Debian packages.
This scheme allows newer versions packaged by Debian to override versions in this repository by default, in case Debian ships an important security update.
A particular suite may contain packages
whose kh<B> version point to an older
release. This is normal and indicates that the package has not been
rebuilt since that release.
Please email me if you have any issues with this repository or its packages.
2023-09-23: GPG key extension, and a Debian keyring package.
2023-06-12: Debian Bookworm released, Trixie repos added.
2023-03-25: Fresh cooked Debian packages, in an APT repository near you.
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