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#1 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Missing chimaera-backports firmware packages » 2022-10-26 22:25:26
The date given for the firmware packages reflects the time of the upstream git tag from which the package is built.
Thanks for that. Interesting that it takes more than a year to get from completed firmware tarball to Debian package, even for a backport.
Just checked again, and there it is:
Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 20210818-1~bpo11+1
At least I've learned something from jumping the gun!
#2 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Missing chimaera-backports firmware packages » 2022-10-26 09:53:08
Despite the date on the version listing, it looks like they've only just been accepted into bullseye-backports.
Thanks for teaching me something about the repos! And thanks for the hard work; it's a great distro.
#3 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Missing chimaera-backports firmware packages » 2022-10-26 09:29:56
Thanks for clarifying regarding merging rather than mirroring, and the consequent lag.
The only the thing I'm still confused about is the length of the lag. The versions of the two backported packages I mentioned are listed by Debian as 20210818-1~bpo11+1, which appears to be over a year ago. Would packages this age not normally have merged by now?
#4 Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Missing chimaera-backports firmware packages » 2022-10-25 22:28:26
- ngai.fei
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I'd always assumed that the chimaera-backports repo just mirrors bullseye-backports, and with, for example, kernel updates it does.
I cannot however seem to locate the equivalent packages for firmware-linux-nonfree and firmware-iwlwifi (what I'm really interested in) in chimaera-backports/non-free, even though they're clearly available in bullseye-backports/non-free.
We appear to be stuck with the older chimaera/non-free versions. Any ideas why they aren't available in chimaera-backports?
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