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  RE: Cannot apt-add repository "Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital)" <srasku@wurldtech.com> - 2016-10-06 21:10 +0200
    Re: Cannot apt-add repository Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-06 21:20 +0200
      Re: Cannot apt-add repository Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2016-10-07 06:30 +0200
        Re: Cannot apt-add repository Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 09:50 +0200
          Re: Cannot apt-add repository Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-07 14:30 +0200
    Re: Cannot apt-add repository kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-10-09 02:00 +0200

#173254 — RE: Cannot apt-add repository

So, what is the best practice to get the latest (or at least newer) version of git?  Compile from source?  I want to use some of the `git bisect` features that were introduced in 2.7.

...Stephen

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From: Sven Hartge [mailto:sven@svenhartge.de] 

"Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital)" <srasku@wurldtech.com> wrote:
> When I try and add-apt-repository, I get the following:

> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa

Don't add Ubuntu-PPAs to a Debian system. It will not work and it may destroy your installation.

S°

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#173255

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 05:27:49PM +0000, Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital) wrote:
> So, what is the best practice to get the latest (or at least newer) version
> of git?  Compile from source?  I want to use some of the `git bisect`
> features that were introduced in 2.7.

I don't know about git specifically, but in the general case:

1) See if the software is already packaged in your release of Debian.

2) If your release is stable and it doesn't have the version you want,
   see if there is already a backport available in your release's
   -backports repository.

3) If there isn't a backport already available, try to make one.  (Or
   ask the Universal Debian Database whether it's known to be impossible
   to do so.)

4) If a backport can't be made because of build-dependencies, just build
   from the upstream source tarball.

git has some pretty wicked build dependencies (including subversion --
really?), and no current jessie-backports version, so you might be
looking at an upstream tarball.  I haven't tried it myself.

What is NOT on the list is "use some other operating system's package
repositories".  Never do that!

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#173263

On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> ask the Universal Debian Database whether it's known to be 
> impossible to do so.

Ok, I'll bite. What is "the Universal Debian Database?"

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#173264

	Hi.

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 12:26:46AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> >ask the Universal Debian Database whether it's known to be impossible to
> >do so.
> 
> Ok, I'll bite. What is "the Universal Debian Database?"

I find it hard to beleive myself, but here it is:

http://udd.debian.org

Reco

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#173268

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:46:08AM +0300, Reco wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 12:26:46AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > >ask the Universal Debian Database whether it's known to be impossible to
> > >do so.
> > 
> > Ok, I'll bite. What is "the Universal Debian Database?"
> 
> I find it hard to beleive myself, but here it is:
> 
> http://udd.debian.org

Oh, sorry.  "Ultimate" not "Universal".

In addition to the web page, and the PostgreSQL interface described on
https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase , there is an IRC chat
bot ("judd") who can query it for you, at least on the Freenode network
(I don't know about OFTC).

-> /msg judd checkbackport git
<- Backporting package git in sid->jessie/amd64: all build-dependencies satisfied using jessie, virtual.

Sometimes judd's "checkbackport" reports "all satisfied" and it
still doesn't work because of undeclared dependencies (like needing
a post-stable "dpkg" package during the build), but it's the best
test I know of besides actually trying to backport it.

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#173338

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital)
<srasku@wurldtech.com> wrote:
> So, what is the best practice to get the latest (or at least newer) version of git?  Compile from source?  I want to use some of the `git bisect` features that were introduced in 2.7.
>

git 1:2.9.3-1 exists in testing and unstable distributions of Debian.
So one option is to update your machine to either testing or unstable.
Running testing or unstable is not for the faint of heart. So please
read https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing.en.html
to help you decide whether it is worth it.

thanks
raju
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