e-tobi.net vs. alioth debs

[Tobias Grimm]

Nicolas Huillard wrote:

 >I would like to know the relationship that exist between e-tobi's 
 >repository (http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/) and alioth's packaging 
 >developement.


The packages at http://www.e-tobi.net/vdr and 
http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/ are mainly based on the 
ctvdr-distribution (A VDR distribution by the German computer magazine 
c't), which is an extension to the official Debian-packages. My 
repository is some kind of a "front line". Normally new package versions 
are released in my repository first. All ctvdr-developers are also 
members of the Debian VDR Packaging Group, so we are all working 
together, not in parallel. From time to time a package from my 
repository will be moved to Alioth (and vice versa). But this is not 
possible for all packages, because of the DFSG. Another "special" in my 
repository are the vdrdevel packages maintained by Thomas Günther. 
vdrdevel and its plugins can be installed in parallel to the stable vdr 
1.2.6 and you can easily switch between vdr 1.2.6  and the 1.3.x 
development version. But within the next weeks, we will upgrade our 
1.2.6 repository to 1.3.x.

 > There seems to be much more plugins on e-tobi than on alioth.

For a list of plugins see:

http://www.e-tobi.net/repositories/repositories.html
http://www.e-tobi.net/repositories/repositories-vdrdevel.html


 > Where should I point my /etc/apt/sources.list to ? (I can't read
 > german, so docs on www.e-tobi.net are approximative for me).


Take a look at:

http://www.e-tobi.net/cgi-bin/main.cgi/=repository-struktur

It should give you an idea of my repository structure, even if you can't 
read german.

For vdr 1.2.6 (and soon 1.3.x) you need e.g.:
deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdr/sarge/experimental/binary base/
deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdr/sarge/experimental/binary backports/
deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdr/sarge/experimental/binary addons/
deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdr/sarge/experimental/binary vdr/bigpatch


For vdrdevel 1.3.x:
deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary base/
deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary backports/
deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary addons/
deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary vdr/multipatch/

The repository structure may look strange, but this is mostly because we 
provide different patch versions of vdr and because we have our own 
release cycle from experimental to testing to stable.

Tobias