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Design Documentation about Redistribution of Kicksecure ™
Overview of Maintenance Tasks[edit]
UNFINISHED LIST!
software:
- Merge, build, upload, test upgrades of third party maintained software such as:
- hardened-malloc [1]
- Linux Kernel Runtime Guard LKRG
- kloak
- tb-updater
- Tor (see Dev/Tor)
- resign (refresh) repository [2]
- Build, test, upload new releases.
- What we do
- Support
- Documentation
- review contributions (Special:RecentChanges)
- review, advice, merge contributions such as
server maintenance:
- payments for server, domains
- server backups
- full files based backups
- update webapps
- mediawiki
- discourse forums
- phabricator (phasing out)
- operating system updates
- testing on stage server before upgrades
package stable upgrade[edit]
dist_build_apt_codename=bullseye-proposed-updates make reprepro-add
Tor Browser hardcoded version file[edit]
Keep Tor Browser hardcoded version file up to date.
- subscribe to tor-announce mailing list to be notified of new Tor Browser stable releases
- check if it is already manually downloadable going through torproject.org
- keep /usr/share/tb-updater/tbb_hardcoded_version
updated - to manually test from a Qubes AppVM
CURL_PROXY=--fail tbb_version=6.5.2 qubes_vm_type=Template update-torbrowser --postinst
dist_build_apt_codename=bullseye-proposed-updates make reprepro-add
Kicksecure ™ repository TPO packages[edit]
- keep mirroring https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/bullseye/ to whonix.org repository
- do a developer test (upload to developers repository?)
- upload to stable-proposed-updates (currently: bullseye-proposed-updates) for wider testing
- upload to stable (currently: bullseye)
sudo -E ./build-steps.d/1200_create-debian-packages --build --allow-untagged true --allow-uncommitted true --internalrun --target root --function "get_tpo_packages ; create_whonix_repository"
See Also[edit]
- ↑
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc/releases/tag/8
- ↑ valid-until field
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