I’ll try to clarify things:
According to my understanding the first stable release will be 2.0.0 - without any beta in the version number. Any beta release is a “testing” release. Therefore currently no packages for “stable” are available.
As long as only beta releases are available use:
deb http://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2 testing main
There are further expert options:
If you want to stick with a specific openHAB version and prevent automatic updates as soon as apt-get update && apt-get upgrade is called, neither use “testing” nor “stable” as distribution name but use the version number. For now “2.0.0.b3” is the only valid option. In most cases you don’t use the repo this way, because you have to change your apt-sources-list for getting newer releases.
There are also two repos hosting snapshot - not nightly - builds. In respect to the bintray repo these are completly different repositories according to the repo url and structure. Snapshots are not hosted at bintray because bintray doesn’t support snapshot builds. Furthermore the snapshot repos use the “trivial” apt repository layout and there are seperate repos for the “openhab-online” and the “openhab-offline” package. The repos are created on every build. I’m not sure but I think builds are triggert by any changes to master branch of the openHAB git repository. The repos are missing as long as a build is running, because they are wiped out at the beginning of the maven build and created at the end of the build. You will get errors if you try an installation within the timeslot of a running build.
If you want to use these repos add one of this line in your sources list file - make sure to remove the bintray repository from your sources list.
You can test the current snapshot of the offline distribution by adding this line to your apt-sources:
deb https://openhab.ci.cloudbees.com/job/openHAB-Distribution/ws/distributions/openhab-offline/target/apt-repo/ /
or the online distribution by adding that line:
deb https://openhab.ci.cloudbees.com/job/openHAB-Distribution/ws/distributions/openhab-online/target/apt-repo/ /
As soon as 2.0.0 is released there will be a “stable” distribution. Most users will change their apt-sources list to:
deb http://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2 stable main
I’ll make a PR for the docs.
Regards,
Theo