Guidance for Repositories - Enterprise -vs- No-Subscription

[Nagorg]

Hello,

I have a subscription that entitles me with access to the Enterprise repositories.

My hopefully simple question is; should I disable the other debian.org repositories and just use the Enterprise repo's? Or should I keep all of these enabled?

If this is answered somewhere on this forum, I didn't find it.

 

[bbgeek17]

You should not disable Debian sources. They bring in other components that are not part of subscription repo.

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[UdoB]

Things like this can simply be tested: when I disable the debian sources and query the policy of a random (but known to be installed) package I get:

~# apt policy bash
bash:
  Installed: 5.2.37-2+b5
  Candidate: 5.2.37-2+b5
  Version table:
 *** 5.2.37-2+b5 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

(This is the full output, not shortened.) It tells me that there is no online repository available to download that package. That's bad.

Of course with Debian sources I get:

~# apt policy bash
bash:
  Installed: 5.2.37-2+b5
  Candidate: 5.2.37-2+b5
  Version table:
 *** 5.2.37-2+b5 500
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Now I know this one was downloaded from debian.org and it will get updates through this mechanism

 

[Nagorg]

Okay, thanks. The reason I'm asking is that one of the perks to subscribing, aside from supporting Proxmox, is access to the Enterprise repo's for "stable" updates suitable for production. I interpreted this to mean that other OS specific updates would come from the Enterprise repo as well.

If this isn't the case and I still need the non-subscription repo's, what am I getting from the Enterprise repo that makes updates more stable and suitable for production?

 

[Impact]

Debian is the base OS and the PVE repos provide the PVE related packages. The enterprise one is more "stable" in comparison to the no-subscription one.
Also see docs: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_Repositories