There are two, new repo mirrors available for Sparkers, both located in Germany. Mirror DE1 is provided by JackGrumbler: de1.repo.sparkylinux.org (not active any more) Mirror DE2 is provided by MoroS: de2.repo.sparkylinux.org Thanks a lot both, JackGrumbler and MoroS. If you would like to provide a mirror repo server in your location, send a message via … Read more
A few months ago, in March 2020, new named repositories for Sparky have been created : • oldstable-> tyche • stable-> nibiru • testing-> potolo It will help to make painless dist upgrade from present Sparky testing to next Sparky stable, and from present Sparky stable to oldstable as well. As I mentioned before, the … Read more
New Sparky named repositories have been created, alongside to the present ones: • oldstable-> tyche • stable-> nibiru • testing-> potolo What is it for? Developing and providing packages to Sparky based on Debian testing only was quite easy, it was just one branch, developed as a rolling release. No changes in repos required then. … Read more
Migration to a new, bigger server is almost done, all the services work from the new one already. Important! A new Sparky repository public key has been generated so manually intervention is required! Users of all Sparky versions/editions have to install the new public key as follows: wget -O – https://repo.sparkylinux.org/sparky.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add … Read more
There is a change in the Sparky repository as of 27 December 2018. What changed? – Sparky stable line stopped using mixed Sparky stable and testing repos, couse it would be difficult keep in this stage for upcoming new ‘stable’ and ‘oldstable’ repos (next year) – most packages are available via a new ‘core’ repos … Read more