Hi Alon,

Thank you for the detailed information ressources you supplied!

Let's see if I got that right:

If I use that roundup-sid-package, then there will be some packages (roundup dependencies) updated to the sid-equivalents and the others remain "lenny"?

Security updates will be deactivated for all packages or sid only in this case?

If I want to be always up-to-date with roundup versions then I will have to install them from source. It appears to me as if roundup is "forged" deep into the turnkey-appliance. Will installing from source break the features of the appliance?
 

The migration procedures for the various roundup-versions are listed here:

http://roundup-tracker.org/docs/upgrading.html

Will I be able to follow them step by step with the native turnkey-roundup appliance?
(e.g. if an automatic package update is done)

Tested updating to sid package version of roundup following these steps:

1.) get debian package dpkg from http://packages.debian.org/de/lenny/i386/dpkg/download
2.) dpkg -i dpkg_1.14.25_i386.deb
3.) get debian package python_support from http://packages.debian.org/de/lenny-backports/all/python-support/download
4.) dpkg -i python-support_1.0.3~bpo50+1_all.deb
5.) get debian package roundup from http://packages.debian.org/de/squeeze/all/roundup/download
6.) dpkg -i roundup_1.4.10-2_all.deb
 

Notes:
roundup_1.4.10-2_all depends on python-support (>= 0.90.0).
python-support_1.0.3~bpo50+1_all depends on dpkg (>= 1.14.19).


roundup-server -v
now reports "1.4.10 (python 2.5.2)".
 

Is this enough to report it as "working"?

[2009-12-27] Roundup's version number increased from 1.4.10-2 to 1.4.11-1 in Debian squeeze.

See:
http://packages.debian.org/source/testing/roundup

If you have to migrate existing trackers, follow each(!) migration step between old roundup version and new roundup version, as mentioned in

http://roundup-tracker.org/docs/upgrading.html

In webmin interface you can trigger webmin's update to 1.500

The first thing to do in webmin is to set the Timezone to your local settings.
You find it within webmin under "System" -> "System Time" ->  "Change timezone".

A good idea is to install the packages

wget
python-dev

as they are not shipped with the appliance.

 

Then you can install the python package "pytz" via "easy_install".
To archieve this, you first have to install "easy_install" by

1.) Getting the package "setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg" (for python2.5)  e.g. with wget from
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

2.) execute in shell:
sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.5.egg

3.) execute in shell:
easy_install pytz