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Sonntag, 14. August 2011

Updated gwyddion version in repository to 2.25 (now for Debian squeeze!)

So finally after way too long time, I got around to update gwyddion to 2.25 in my repository. Now this one is compiled for Debian squeeze 6.0! I hope, it does work now - there were an awful lot of strange things happening until I now have the feeling that it should actually work... Please complain to me, if you experience trouble! Thanks in advance for any feedback!
 
Sonntag, 7. August 2011

Diaspora test

So these days I finally decided to register for this long-anticipated facebook-killer thing, a Diaspora account at the german pod despora.de. So long it's not directly heavy traffic, without too many people whom I would know. But maybe that will change? Let's see... If you're interested, just go there and look for me: beathovn@despora.de. cu soon
 
Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2010

old repository directories deleted

To reduce the possibility for me to create more strange stuff with my repository, I decided to remove the old simple i386 repository under debian/binary. I know, that still some of you are using it, but I hope, you don't mind spending one minute editing your /etc/apt/sources.list to update it to the new repository location. It will make life easier for everybody. Thanks!

So, to repeat it here for clarity, the correct line in /etc/apt/sources.list should look like

deb http://www.beathovn.de/debian stable main

 
Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2010

Dependencies fixed - now gwyddion should actually be installable on Debian stable (lenny)

During the preparation of the Debian packages for the new gwyddion 2.21 I noticed, that my build tools actually were building packages for Debian unstable when they were supposed to build for Debian stable. With the effect of too recent dependencies which could, of course, not be satisfied on a normal Debian stable installation. This has been the case for some time, probably. Anyway - nobody complained... ;-)

But now I thought, it would be a good time to fix this. So now gwyddion 2.21-1~jb1 should actually be installable on a normal Debian stable. If not, please really complain to me!

Have fun!

 
Mittwoch, 11. August 2010

strange apt-get problem

Recently, I got an interesting bug email telling me, that apt-get would not want to update from my repository with the following warning:

W: Failed to fetch http://www.beathovn.de/debian/dists/stable/Release
Unable to find expected entry main/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

It turned out, that I really have to have a Packages file in the above mentioned location and not only the (seemingly much more common) Packages.gz. Couldn't find any documentation on that, though (besides a bugreport mentioning just that: #481129). The funny thing is, that my usual official Debian repository server also does not have the uncompressed file, only the compressed one. And, of course, apt-get works nicely. Maybe it's because their Release file mentions the uncompressed file, although it is not actually in the directory??? Magic...

Anyway, I put up the additional uncompressed Packages file and apt-get seems happy now...