On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:08:03 +0000 Elias Angulo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:06:22 +0300 > > Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] homemade linux-libre kernel repo > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > CC: > > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Karl Goetz<[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:40:50 +0000 > > > Elias Angulo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> Well, i think it have some advantages, as it can be updatet > > >> automatically by the system.. I will have the repo uptodate as > > >> soon new versions come. People with my repo enabled in his > > >> sources.list will only have to do: > > > if you'd done so before hand you would have had a chance to work > > > together on it .... > > > kk > > > > I used to maintain an apt repo for the free kernels, but stopped > > doing so after a while. Installing latest kernels on such a distro > > like gNS with a rather older collection of programs sometimes > > causes problems. (I remember X malfunctioning after one of the > > releases on some people's machines.) So, having people's kernels > > automatically upgrading is, in my opinion, prone to a great number > > of user problems that don't have to happen. And if you think > > freedom shoppe kernels are also used by users of other distros such > > as Ubuntu and Debian, the potential of user complaints just looks > > to big for me. > > > > Feel free to share your experience with kernel repo maintanence, > > Elias :) > > Well, the server has been up since i set it up and its pretty stable. > I reaches sometimes 100kb/s. At the moment im looking for the > linux-libre kernel source in a tarball; perhaps the missing .dsc file > would be in there. What i'm looking for is a kind of fle with the > description and other stuff that dpgk-scansources can read. Here's a > copy of part of man dkpg-scansources: (trim) > So, Ali, if youre at charge of maintain those packages, could you > make that file and a tar.gz for the source including it? I found > strange, a source in a .deb package, its the first time i've seen. Its standard practise in Debian/Ubuntu. > The target of the repo its not only to host kernel-libre. I could > host any Free package not available in other repos. It was idea of > Ark74, calling it Libre Repo, for this purpose. Im open to > suggestions. :D If your going to make a 3rd party repository make sure its got some quality standards (start with lintian clean). I started making up a list of requirements for a 3rd party repo I was planning to set up, I can find it if you want. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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