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Testing New GalliumOS Packages

Summary

To enable the "testing" and "prerelease" repository distributions:

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

Details

GalliumOS maintains one package repository (http://apt.galliumos.org/), which includes a few repository distributions. The "stable" distribution is required, and enabled in the default GalliumOS configuration. All other distributions are optional.

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

galliumos-repodist

galliumos-repodist is run from a shell, and will list all available GalliumOS repository distributions, along with their current configuration status for 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 should run galliumos-update (or "GalliumOS Update" from the launcher menu) to pull down the package databases, and bring your machine into sync with the package repository.

galliumos% galliumos-update

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

Updating packages...

...(etc)...