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this is work in progress and the ppas below do not exist yet, check with asac or fta

This document describes what ppas the mozillateam runs and what mechanisms users can use to opt-in/out from individual apps etc.

Stable/Backport PPAs

Daily PPAs

Using PPAs for just specific application versions

for technical reasons we don't have per-version daily repositories as this would cause problems when shipping partial transitions such as moving the firefox meta package from 3.5 to 3.6 package

For users that want to run dailies or backports for just a specific version, we suggest lowering the priority of the repository using apt pinning and then increasing the score for the app that is wanted.

To opt-in only for specific application versions we provide a wizard script puts the proper pinning in place.

Example (use dailies for firefox-3.6 only)

1. lower priority for ppa, create a file /etc/apt/preferences.d/firefox-daily-opt-in with:

   Package: *
   Pin: release o=LP-PPA-firefox-daliy
   Pin-Priority: 10

2. raise priority for firefox-3.6 packages, create a file /etc/apt/preferences.d/firefox-36-daily-enable.pin:

   Package: firefox-3.6* abrowser-3.6* xulrunner-1.9.2*
   Pin: release o=LP-PPA-firefox-daliy
   Pin-Priority: 510
   
   Package: firefox abrowser
   Pin: release o=LP-PPA-firefox-daliy version 3.6*
   Pin-Priority: 510

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