After many requests from several users and after many months of promise, the Dotdeb repositories are GPG-signed. Yes, you can now get rid of the annoying " WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!" message! Waiting for a dotdeb-keyring package, you just have to get the key and add it to your trusted keys’ keyring : gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 89DF5277 gpg -a --export 89DF5277 | sudo apt-key add - I hope you’ll enjoy it.
Just for fun : I’ve been interviewed about Dotdeb by PHP TV, a french-speaking webTV.
Dotdeb has now its own Twitter account. Feel free to follow…
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” has been published on last Valentine’s day. Although most of the Dotdeb packages for the previous release, “Etch”, are compatible with Lenny, it is now time for Dotdeb to have dedicated packages for this new distribution. I’m actually kind of busy at work, but I managed to build and upload the most important packages : PHP5, PHP5 PECL extensions and MySQL 5.1. Additional pieces of software (Google Perftools, for example) will appear in the next few days. Please be patient and don’t hesit to make suggestions. ...
On the previous week-end, Dotdeb’s website went down due to configuation problems. Sorry for that, it is now fixed.
FYI, ClamAV has been removed from Dotdeb, since it is more actively maintained on Debian Volatile. Volatile is now part of the Debian project and will be activated by default on Debian Lenny. Its goal is to provide up-to-date packages of some specific pieces of software (ClamAV, Spamassassin for example). Please use it instead of Dotdeb for your mail-filtering packages.
If Dotdeb is useful for you and if you want to mirror it, just add a cron job to periodically fetch the packages : rsync -a --delete rsync.dotdeb.org::packages/ /your/local/path/ Then, if you wish your mirror to appear on the mirrors list, send me its full URL. Note 1 : mirroring once a day should be enough. More frequent updates could lead to a ban without any warning. Note 2 : Using anything else than Rsync (Wget, HTTrack…) could lead to a ban without any warning. ...