On Tuesday 22 Feb 2011 21:49:57 Ximin Luo wrote: > See the contrib-staging and debian-staging repos for details. We are fairly > close work-wise (don't know about time-wise, I don't have a lot atm) to a > custom debian package. However, we're far from an official package in the > debian project's "main" archive, mainly because a lot of our dependencies > aren't in debian.
Freenet cannot be in main until 1.0, as a matter of policy. We need to be able to update nodes regularly. Maybe volatile? > > TODO for custom debian package: > - deploy contrib-legacy-27 (this is ready now, but needs testing) > - execute [1] in fred/README.dev > - deploy contrib-master (v28) > - execute [2] in fred/README.dev > > TODO for a debian package in main: > - package db4o-java, lzma, lzmajio, mantissa, bitcollider in debian - we > currently bundle them with the freenet-ext package > - edit the debian packaging files to use service-wrapper rather than our own > custom /etc/init.d scripts > > If you help, the work will get done quicker. > > X > > On 22/02/11 21:23, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > On Thursday 17 Feb 2011 19:29:56 Michiel de Jong wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I agree Freenet is definitely one of the first pieces of software that > >> should be included in the FreedomBox. Within the FreedomBox project, there > >> is currently a consensus to make FreedomBox a Debian Pure Blend. So what is > >> needed for that is for Freenet to be a debian package. I couldn't find any, > >> is there any? If not, then that would be what needs doing. Is there anyone > >> who would be able to package freenet for debian? > > > > There has been work on a debian package and repository. infinity0 most > > recently looked into it, but he was in the process of changing some > > structural issues in the node to make it easier. I will forward... > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Michiel de Jong > >> --- > >> Unhosted.org > >> > >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Daniel Kanaan <danny at kanaan.org.uk> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Fantastic concept. It seems silly when people have big PC's with all > >>> those > >>> spare resources to have to rely on a tiny mini-server such as described in > >>> the article, but when you take in consideration that my PC requires over > >>> 200Watts, then it starts to make sense, just as a cost cutting and power > >>> saving mech. I know I hate leaving my machine on just for freenet. > >>> > >>> So, guys, why not get involved? > >>> > >>> On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:56 PM, vive wrote: > >>> > >>>> Thought this may be interesting for the community, > >>>> > >>>> Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can't Find You > >>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html > >>>> > >>>> Sounds just like an application of Freenet. > >>>> > >>>> Cheers, > >>>> V. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110224/5f186cfe/attachment.pgp>
