Overview of Maintenance Tasks[edit]

UNFINISHED LIST!

software:

Merge, build, upload, test upgrades of third party maintained software such as:
- hardened-malloc ^[1]
- LKRG
- kloak
- tb-updater
- Tor (see Dev/Tor)
resign (refresh) repository ^[2]
Build, test, upload new releases.
What we do
Support
Documentation
- review contributions (Special:RecentChanges)
review, advice, merge contributions such as
- Dev/Porting - https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-on-mac-m1-arm/11310 ^[archive]

server maintenance:

payments for server, domains
server backups
- full files based backups
update webapps
- mediawiki
- discourse forums
- phabricator (phasing out)
operating system updates
testing on stage server before upgrades

package stable upgrade[edit]

WHONIX_BUILD_APT_CODENAME=bullseye-proposed-updates make reprepro-add

WHONIX_BUILD_APT_CODENAME=bullseye-proposed-updates make reprepro-add

Tor Browser hardcoded version file[edit]

Keep Tor Browser hardcoded version file up to date.

subscribe to tor-announce mailing list to be notified of new Tor Browser stable releases
check if it is already manually downloadable going through torproject.org
keep /usr/share/tb-updater/tbb_hardcoded_version ^[archive] updated
to manually test from a Qubes AppVM

CURL_PROXY=--fail tbb_version=6.5.2 qubes_vm_type=TemplateVM  update-torbrowser --postinst

CURL_PROXY=--fail tbb_version=6.5.2 qubes_vm_type=TemplateVM  update-torbrowser --postinst

WHONIX_BUILD_APT_CODENAME=bullseye-proposed-updates make reprepro-add

WHONIX_BUILD_APT_CODENAME=bullseye-proposed-updates make reprepro-add

Whonix ™ repository TPO packages[edit]

keep mirroring http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/bullseye/ ^[archive] to whonix.org repository
- do a developer test (upload to developers repository?)
- upload to stable-proposed-updates (currently: bullseye-proposed-updates) for wider testing
- upload to stable (currently: bullseye)

sudo -E ./build-steps.d/1200_create-debian-packages --build --allow-untagged true --allow-uncommitted true --internalrun --target root --function "get_tpo_packages ; create_whonix_repository"

sudo -E ./build-steps.d/1200_create-debian-packages --build --allow-untagged true --allow-uncommitted true --internalrun --target root --function "get_tpo_packages ; create_whonix_repository"