Re: Tarsnap experimental .deb packages

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

In case anyone is wondering why these aren't being re-rolled as
"non-experimental" and going onto the main tarsnap website yet:
It turns out that depending on the right OpenSSL packages across
different versions of Debian and Ubuntu is harder than expected.
Once that's sorted out we'll roll another set of experimental
packages.

On a related note, it turns out that OpenSSL 1.1 broke things
enough that tarsnap doesn't even build with it -- we'll get that
fixed soon and release tarsnap 1.0.38 with that and many other
less urgent changes.

Colin Percival

On 12/23/16 03:43, Colin Percival wrote:
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> Hi Tarsnap users,
>
> Experimental Tarsnap .deb binary packages are now available for Debian,
> Ubuntu, and similar Linux distributions for the amd64 and i386 architectures.
>
> You can find installation instructions at
>     https://pkg.tarsnap.com/experimental/
> including the Tarsnap experimental debian signing key
>     0x5CA7AAEF0C8DDADA
>
> Assuming no problems show up in the next week, this will become an official
> channel for getting tarsnap (documented on the main tarsnap website, and
> with a signing key which doesn't have "EXPERIMENTAL" in its name) in January.
>
> Binary packages for RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, and similar Linux distributions
> will probably come next; I might also provide FreeBSD packages, but I'm not
> sure there's much point given that the FreeBSD.org pkg repository provides
> tarsnap packages.  Beyond that, I'm not sure what platform would come next;
> feel free to offer suggestions.
>
> - --
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid