On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:57 PM, schnoocats <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Fajar for your proposal (PPA)
PPA is not proposal. It's "personal package archives". See http://blog.launchpad.net/ppa/personal-package-archives-for-everyone > > I've just 2 beginner's questions: > What does it mean "dfsg" ? The best explanation that I can find actually comes from a blog which is no longer available (at least I can't reach it now). Google's cache: http://goo.gl/QUYVg In the case of freeradius, AFAIK this is to note that Debian's official package removes some files from the upstream source (namely, the debian/ directory) and replace it with their own. From debian/changelog, the dfsg string was added starting 2.0.4+dfsg-1. #=========================================================== freeradius (2.0.4+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low * Ok, actually remove all the cruft in debian/ shipped by upstream. This means repacking the tarball and all that, but it also means dpkg-source won't get the chance to ignore removed files, resulting in files reappearing, but not locally (closes: #481406) * Also remove config.{cache,log} in clean target - damn you gitignore -- Stephen Gran <[email protected]> Mon, 19 May 2008 03:55:55 +0100 #=========================================================== My ppa is based on Ubuntu's source (which in turn is based on Debian's source), so I keep the dfsg string intact. > What does it mean "git" ? Git is the version control software used to manage freeradius source. The public git repository for freeradius is available at https://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server When you see "git" as part of package version, that means the package contains some addition that are present in a particular git commit, but not in the official "released" version. In my case, 2.1.11 has some bugs (e.g. detail file, HUP) which was fixed in git, but not yet released as another version, so I use the commit which already has the fix. So in short: - if you want "official" freeradius release, download the source from freeradius.org (and optionally build a Debian/Ubuntu package from that) - if you want ubuntu-supported freeradius package, use the one in the official repository (latest is 2.1.10) - if you want to use what I currently use for testing purposes, use my ppa -- Fajar - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
