Hi, thanks for comments.

>>>>> In <4f9383510908070718q48b6f28esf3b13e83ba983499 at mail.gmail.com> 
>>>>>   Evan Daniel <evanbd at gmail.com> wrote:

> For detailed instructions on using the wrapper, I suggest reading
> the run.sh file.  (On a normal *nix Freenet install, one controls
> the node by ./run.sh [start|stop|restart].)

I'll investigate it.  Currently, /etc/init.d/fred (I think this is the
Debian standard way) does the same thing, so

# /etc/init.d/fred start
# /etc/init.d/fred stop
# /etc/init.d/fred restart

should work as expected.

> In general, you should probably track fred-official rather than
> fred-staging.  The official branch is where the official builds come
> from, and they're plenty frequent enough.  That's where the builds
> for the auto-update come from, for example.  (Speaking of which, you
> may want to ensure that's disabled, if the package manager is
> expecting to handle such things.)

Oh, I thought fred-official is sort of stable but out-of-date kind
stuff, but obviously not...I rebuilt my package using -official.

Now freenet/ contains .deb package built from -official, and
freenet-staging/ contains one built from -staging.

> You may want to make sure the build claims an appropriate amount of
> disk usage, if you haven't already: on first startup, Freenet will
> normally create a datastore of at least 256 MiB.  This is not
> accounted for in the sizes of the files shipped in the package.

I'll add some notes on it to the package description.

> Inclusion into the official Debain archive would be nice, but is
> problematic.  The main reason is the update frequency.  Mandatory
> builds are not uncommon (1-2 per month, perhaps) on Freenet for a
> variety of reasons; if you're not running the latest mandatory
> build, you can't talk to the network.  That poses problems for
> Debian's update frequency, though it might be possible to have
> something that was perpetually in unstable with no intention of
> migrating to stable.  I don't know enough about the policies
> surrounding testing to comment on that.

Hmm, I didn't know the freenet protocol is still in a state of flux.
I can upload packages to sid/experimental and make it never enter into
testing, but I think it would be better to distribute them from the
official Freenet site or such for a while.  Could someone upload or
put a link to my package repositry?

Best regards,
MH

--
Masayuki Hatta

Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Manufacturing Management Reserch Center, The University of Tokyo

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mhatta at gnu.org / mhatta at debian.org / mhatta at opensource.jp

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