Extrepo is a specialized tool in Debian (sid) for handling adding external repos in a safe and secure way. Might be useful for a bunch of tutorials in our documentation:
https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/debian/Announcing_extrepo/
Edit by Patrick:
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T953
Quoted, replied here just now:
Chromium Browser for Kicksecure Discussions (not Whonix) - #70 by Patrick
a Torproject repo - which I haven’t checked yet but may be a more direct way to obtain newer TBB releases.
That’s apparently just the “normal” https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/ with its “usual” contents. I.e. no Tor Browser as Debian package.
source:
As far as I understand, extrepo doesn’t invent its own software. It’s not a kind of flathub. extrepo is a tool to make adding repositories such as https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/, https://download.docker.com/linux/debian, https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian, etc. easier. Kinda a way to upload an APT signing key to Debian and /etc/apt/sources.list.d drop-in configuration snippet by sending a pull request to the extrepo-data repository.
Refactoring default installed packages…
Should extrepo be installed by default on Whonix-Gateway? Usefulness? Some future hypothetical situation where extrepo might be useful to get a newer Tor version?
I guess, for now, no - unless there are arguments for it.
Yeah that sounds pretty useful. If extrepo isn’t and/or grabbing too many dependencies it would be good to keep around.
sudo apt install extrepo
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libcryptx-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
extrepo libcryptx-perl
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 635 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,060 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Seems OK.
extrepo is installed by default since Whonix 16.
This was merged. Yay! Thank you!
Should install Debian -- Package Search Results -- extrepo-offline-data by default when porting to Debian bookworm.
related:
This might happen. Upstream looking for feedback.
News there.