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Software Signature Verification Usability Issues and Proposed Solutions Design Dev/Redistribution Previous page: Software Signature Verification Usability Issues and Proposed Solutions Index page: Design Next page: Dev/Redistribution Dev/Maintenance

Design Documentation about Redistribution of Kicksecure

Version Variables in the Wiki

• Template:Stable_project_version_based_on_Debian_version_iso: 12.7.0
• Template:VirtualBox_Host_Software_Installation

Overview of Maintenance Tasks

UNFINISHED LIST!

software:

• Merge, build, upload, test upgrades of third party maintained software such as:
  • hardened-malloc
  • kloak
  • tb-updater
  • Tor (see Dev/Tor)
• resign (refresh) repository
• Build, test, upload new releases.
• What we do
• Support
• Documentation
  • review contributions (Special:RecentChanges)
• review, advice, merge contributions such as
  • Dev/Porting
    • https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-on-mac-m1-arm/11310

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

dist_build_apt_codename=bookworm-proposed-updates make reprepro-add

Tor Browser hardcoded version file

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=bookworm-proposed-updates make reprepro-add

Kicksecure repository TPO packages

• keep mirroring https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/bookworm/ to whonix.org repository
  • do a developer test (upload to developers repository?)
  • upload to stable-proposed-updates (currently: bookworm-proposed-updates) for wider testing
  • upload to stable (currently: bookworm)

./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

• Dev/APT Repository

Software Signature Verification Usability Issues and Proposed Solutions Design Dev/Redistribution Previous page: Software Signature Verification Usability Issues and Proposed Solutions Index page: Design Next page: Dev/Redistribution

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