Adding a new repository

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1 Introduction
2 Adding a new repository
3 List of repositories
- 3.1 Official repositories
- 3.2 Unofficial repositories

Introduction

In KateOS, besides the official main repository, there are some other, official and unofficial. This document describes how to add those repositories to the system.

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Adding a new repository

To add a new repository, you have to write it's URL to /etc/updateservers file. To do that, log in as root, edit the file and write the URL. Structure of this file is simple: there are in every line links to the repositories. For example:

# KateOS' repositories list
# Created by KatePKG (2006/11/26 15:00:07)
  http://kateos.org/download/packages/distfiles3/
# http://kateos.org/download/packages/testing3/

Lines preceded by # (comment) are not interpreted, so in this case we have only one repository (official). However, it is faster and more confortable to use application called Realm.

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List of repositories

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Official repositories

http://kateos.org/download/packages/distfiles3/

Official repository with stable packages, often called repo. It should be present in system already.

Mirrors:

http://kateos.org/download/packages/testing3/

Repository with officially testing packages. Everyone who wants to contribute to KateOS' development helping to test this packages, should use this repository. When closing to the new KateOS' release, you can find there packages for it, which will be moved into stable repo.

Mirrors:

http://kateos.org/download/packages/dist3-community-stable/

Official community repository. It has limit of 8MB on a package. You can find there well tested packages, which should work.

Mirrors:

http://kateos.org/download/packages/dist3-community-unstable/

Official community repository. It has limit of 8MB on a package. You can find there untested packages, they may not work or be badly designed.

Mirrors:

http://kateos.org/download/packages/dist3-community-current/

Official community repository. It has limit of 8MB on a package. You can find there untested packages, they may not work or be badly designed. They are done thinking about new version of KateOS, it's something like the official testing repository.

Mirrors:

All repositories mentioned above can be browsed using Web interface called pkgportal

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