Wheezy repository (reprise)

Steve81

Hello!

I open a new thread because (IMHO) in the old one is hard to understand what is IN and what is OUT (and I can't edit the old thread, silly rules).

I'll post here only when I add or remove a package, when I update to a major release (hard but possible) or when a new mirror is added.

Have fun!

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Main address (behind cloudflare)

deb http://apt.balocco.name wheezy main cron dns irc ircd nodejs p2p php smtp ssh www

Mirrors (mantained by me, hosted on LES)

• EU - IT: http://apt.eu.it.balocco.name/
• EU - NL: http://apt.eu.nl.balocco.name/
• EU - UK: http://apt.eu.uk.balocco.name/
• US - TX: http://apt.us.tx.balocco.name/
• AS - JP: http://apt.as.jp.balocco.name/

Mirrors (mantained by other users)

• US: http://cdn.content-network.net/mirror/apt.balocco.name
• US (behind cloudflare): http://cf.content-network.net/mirror/apt.balocco.name
• TR: http://main.mirrortr.com/apt.balocco.name

Thanks @Mun for the us mirror, @introducial for the turkish mirror

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Content (for a more detailed package list: http://apt.balocco.name/pkg_list.wheezy.txt)

• main

  • aidentd
  • ps-mem.py

• cron

  • bcron
  • dcron

• dns

  • maradns
  • knot
  • yadifa
  • woods-host

• irc

  • eggdrop
  • eggdrop-httpproxy
  • eggdrop-ipv6
  • eggdrop-ssl
  • znc

• ircd

  • ngircd
  • atheme-services

• ssh

  • dropbear (patched for fail2ban)
  • dropbear-client
  • fail2ban (patched for dropbear)
  • gesftpclient
  • gesftpserver

• smtp

  • dma
  • opensmtpd

• www

  • cherokee
  • hiawatha
  • htpasswd.pl
  • htpasswd.py
  • monkey
  • openlitespeed

• nodejs

  • nodejs
  • nodejs-legacy (symlink node to nodejs)
  • npm

• p2p

  • transmission-cli
  • transmission-daemon
  • transmission-webinterface

• php

  • php-zendoptimizerplus

Profforg

Can you give me an idea, why someone want to use cherokee hiawatha monkey when there are nginx, which have lower memory/cpu footprint and works many times faster, have much bigger community?

Steve81

@Profforg said:
Can you give me an idea, why someone want to use cherokee hiawatha monkey when there are nginx, which have lower memory/cpu footprint and works many times faster, have much bigger community?

Different features and target:

• Hiawatha is focused on security
• Monkey is the faster webserver
• Cherokee is targeted to ease of use (it have an external webgui to configure the webserver) and have an interesting caching feature (frontline cache)
• Openlitespeed have a webgui and is partially compatible with rewrite rules

nginx is not the holy grail of webservers; all of those webserver have nearly (little lower or little higher) the same speed/cpu/memory usage as nginx.

Also, in my experience, nginx is the worst one when using fpm on uds.

As final point if all people use the same webserver a single bug can rule them all (heartbleed doesn't affected monkey/hiawatha, for example, as they use polarssl).

nullnull

For openlitespeed, it is a pity that php-litespeed is no longer available.

Mark_R

I'm just wondering, why would anyone use a third-party repo when there is an official (more trustworthy?) one managed by the Debian team? what is the benefit of using your repo? i'm still pretty unfamilar with the whole repo system.

Steve81

@nullnull said:
For openlitespeed, it is a pity that php-litespeed is no longer available.

Is too hard to mantain a php sapi, and php-litespeed doesn't work very well with an init script (without an init script is quite senseless to package it, IMAO).

@Mark_R said:
I'm just wondering, why would anyone use a third-party repo when there is an official (more trustworthy?) one managed by the Debian team? what is the benefit of using your repo? i'm still pretty unfamilar with the whole repo system.

Some packages aren't available in the official repository, other are available but in an older version or without some features.
Also, maybe you miss it, my repo is an ADDITION to the official one. Not a replacement.