University IT maintains two separate Debian repositories to supplement the official repositories provided by the Debian project. The repository debian-stanford contains Stanford-local software or Stanford-specific software builds that may interest the general Stanford community. The repository debian-local contains additional packages and software used internally within UIT. The two repositories are kept separate ensuring access controls can be applied to debian-local without affecting debian-stanford.
Do not confuse the Stanford Local Debian Package Archive with the Stanford Debian Archive Mirror, a local mirror of official Debian packages.
Features
Both debian-stanford and debian-local exist on debian-repo.stanford.edu and are managed via reprepro—an archive management package provided alongside Debian. Both are signed with the same GnuPG key, which can be installed into the apt's keyring by downloading the Debian package stanford-keyring.
Repositories are divided into one or more distributions, usually identified either by the keywords unstable, testing, stable, or oldstable, or by the code name (such as jessie or stretch). The keywords change over time as new versions of Debian are released. Code names uniquely identify one Debian release (sid is the code name for the unstable distribution, which never releases but contributes to each release.) In general, both can be used interchangeably, but the keywords like "stable" or "unstable" must always be used in changelog files and *.changes files.
The debian-stanford repository also contains the backports distribution to make backports of software from newer releases, that won't be picked up by default, available. Following the practice of backports.debian.org, they're always referred to using the backports names, not the stable or oldstable names.
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Enterprise Technology teams within University IT
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May be used for Low, Moderate, and High Risk servers, as defined by the Information Security Office.
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Configure a Debian System to Access Stanford Local Debian Archives
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See also
- Operational documentation (access restricted)
