Repositories

Testing New GalliumOS Packages

Summary

 galliumos% sudo galliumos-repodist --enable prerelease
 galliumos% sudo galliumos-repodist --enable testing
 galliumos% galliumos-update

Details

GalliumOS maintains one package repository (apt.galliumos.org), which includes a few repository *distributions*. Only the "stable" distribution is enabled by default.

New packages are first pushed to "testing", and later to "prerelease", before finally reaching "stable". If you would like to help us test new packages (and are willing to accept the risk of instability), you can enable these additional repository distributions.

galliumos-repodist

You can run galliumos-repodist from a shell to show the list of GalliumOS repository distributions available, and their current configuration status on your machine.

galliumos% galliumos-repodist
xenon-prerelease            (disabled)   GalliumOS "prerelease" packages
xenon-testing               (disabled)   GalliumOS "testing" packages

To enable or disable a repository distribution:

galliumos% sudo galliumos-repodist --enable prerelease
galliumos% galliumos-repodist
xenon-prerelease            (enabled)    GalliumOS "prerelease" packages
xenon-testing               (disabled)   GalliumOS "testing" packages

galliumos% sudo galliumos-repodist --disable prerelease
galliumos% galliumos-repodist
xenon-prerelease            (disabled)   GalliumOS "prerelease" packages
xenon-testing               (disabled)   GalliumOS "testing" packages

galliumos-update

After enabling or disabling a new repository distribution, you will want to do a package update to pull in the package databases, and bring your machine into sync with the package repositories.

galliumos% galliumos-update

Updating package directories...
[sudo] password for galliumos:

Updating packages...

...(etc)...