http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/ 2008-12-17T16:07:29+01:00 http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/ http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-12-17T16:07:01+01:00 Alexander Wirt http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=contribute&rev=1229526421&do=diff1229526421 The packages on backports.org are made by volunteers. If you like to help with backporting packages from the Debian archive, make sure you follow these guidelines. Packaging Basic Rules * Subscribe to the backports users mailinglist. Every announcement and bugreport should come over this mailinglist, so this is a must. * Use “etch-backports” as distribution, neither “stable” nor “unstable”. * Make sure that you have a proper build environment which only contains etch and … text/html 2008-10-29T22:06:12+01:00 Alexander Wirt http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions&rev=1225314372&do=diff1225314372 Using backports.org is very simple: ---------- If you want to get announcements about security updates on backports.org subscribe the the backports-security-announce mailinglist. ---------- 1. Add this line deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free text/html 2008-10-23T14:33:35+01:00 Alexander Wirt http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=test&rev=1224765215&do=diff1224765215 Test text/html 2008-10-21T11:43:43+01:00 Alexander Wirt http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:syntax&rev=1224582223&do=diff1224582223 DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing the Edit this page button at the top or bottom of the page. If you want to try something, just use the playground page. The simpler markup is easily accessible via quickbuttons, too. text/html 2008-07-11T15:22:43+01:00 Alexander Wirt http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start&rev=1215782563&do=diff1215782563 Introduction You are running Debian stable, because you prefer the stable Debian tree. It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions. That is where backports come in. Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates), so they will run without new libraries (wherever it is possible) on a stable Debian distribution. I recommend you to pick out single backports which …