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=== Uploading to Extras-devel ===
=== Uploading to Extras-devel ===
{{main|Uploading to Extras-devel}}
{{main|Uploading to Extras-devel}}
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Anyone with a [http://garage.maemo.org/ Garage] account can upload packages to Extras-devel in order to share new updates and start the community QA process. It is important to note that the ''uploader'' needs a Garage account: the package itself does not need to be hosted in the Garage (although it helps a lot! Particularly when explaining which package you want to upload, in the upload-permissions request).
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Anyone with a [http://garage.maemo.org/ Garage] account can upload packages to Extras-devel in order to share new updates and start the community QA process. It is important to note that the ''uploader'' needs a Garage account: the package itself does not need to be hosted in the Garage.
==== Promoting packages to extras-testing ====
==== Promoting packages to extras-testing ====
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# Select ‘New’
# Select ‘New’
# Enter a catalog name of ‘Maemo extras-devel’
# Enter a catalog name of ‘Maemo extras-devel’
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# Enter a web address of http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/
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# Enter a web address of http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel
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# Enter a distribution of ‘fremantle’ (‘fremantle-1.2’ and ‘fremantle-1.3’ now have the same content)
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# Enter a distribution of ‘fremantle’
# Enter components of ‘free non-free’
# Enter components of ‘free non-free’
# Select ‘Save’
# Select ‘Save’
=== Limiting the damage ===
=== Limiting the damage ===
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To keep from unintentionally upgrading to an extras-testing or extras-devel software version, it is possible to tell apt to always prefer stable packages over these other repositories via apt-pinning.  
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To keep from unintentionally upgrading to an extras-testing or extras-devel software version, it is possible to tell apt to always prefer stable packages over these other repositories via apt-pinning. Create the file /etc/apt/preferences with the following content:
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Note: If you use Faster Application Manager (you really shouldn't, SpeedyHAM is way better than fapman and 40 times faster than original HAM), then the following will cause errors, so don't do it and just be careful with what repos you enable.
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Create the file /etc/apt/preferences with the following content:
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  Package: *
  Package: *
  Pin: release l=Extras
  Pin: release l=Extras
  Pin-Priority: 1001
  Pin-Priority: 1001
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Then run
 
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rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin
 
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apt-get update
 
In order to install versions of software from extras-testing or extras-devel when there is a copy available in extras, you now must tell apt exactly what version of software to install.  Run  
In order to install versions of software from extras-testing or extras-devel when there is a copy available in extras, you now must tell apt exactly what version of software to install.  Run  

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