End of support for Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.10
After the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS it is now the only supported Ubuntu release because per policy always the latest Ubuntu release and the latest LTS release is supported which both now is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
No updates for Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.10 which were supported before are now release any longer.

GetDeb and PlayDeb repositories updated and published for Ubuntu 11.10

Well the topic already says it.

I am a bit late this time because I did not know the 11.10 release
had no RC release which I waited for before starting to test the packages
and update the mirrors.

Fortunately, most of the packages I could just copy from the natty to the oneiric
repository. But there are still about 50 packages pending which I need to rebuild
and test on oneiric.

There won't be any updates for the natty repositories from now on.

Following our policy we will publish packages for the latest LTS release (10.04) and
the latest release (11.10) of Ubuntu.

Have a great time using GetDeb and PlayDeb.

Christoph

Vacation

Hello,

I am on vacation in Netherlands from 12.09 until 16.09.
As I am currently the only one doing updates on GetDeb and PlayDeb
do not expect news in the next week.

Christoph Korn

Ubuntu 11.04 repositories published

There has been no news for long. But since the last news often were about servers being down, no news was good news actually :)

But this news is not a bad news either, because I want to inform you that the repositories of GetDeb and PlayDeb

for the very soon available Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) release have just been published.

Hopefully you enjoy the GetDeb/PlayDeb projects also in the new release.

From now on, new packages will be published in the 11.04 and 10.04 repositories following

our policy that we support the latest and the LTS release of Ubuntu.

Kind regards

Christoph Korn

Status update and repository users count

We have managed to get the site/archive in an usable state after some improvements with infrastructure architecture changes. We are already publishing updates but we still have bandwidth constrains that may affect our availability.

I have been looking into the repository access log statistics and we have pretty impressive numbers.
Yesterday, there were 25144 unique IPs requesting the packages Index for lucid, 7272 for karmic. This was a single day count, it means that currently we have more than 30k users with the GetDeb repository.

I expect a lot of people will keep on Lucid (LTS) when Maverick is out, needing some upgrade, so this numbers are likely to increase. We will need to increase our current capacity.

Unavailable, overloaded

Hello,
since we have enabled and resumed the updates the main server was overload. Besides the extremely poor performance the mirrors are unable to synchronize in time.
To be able to return to a minimal usable state we will need to shutdown the web server to be provide bandwidth for the mirrors synchronization.
We also need to freeze the updates until we have a solution for the network bottleneck.

Thanks

Scheduled server outage for tomorrow

Hello,
tomorrow (Sunday) there will be a main server outage from 10am to 4pm (GMT-7), data center maintenance.