Quoting Russell Currey <[email protected]>:
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 23:26 +0000, Elias Angulo wrote:Yes please, I would like to do everything all right with the repo, send me the requisites you want or look for me in the IRC under the nick felix ;)At the moment I succesfully generated the GPG key, which is F148081A and its right placed in the repo and APT can manage it. And I am trying to export VLC from the Ubuntu multiverse repo, and upload to mine. I asked, it respects the Four Freedoms, and it does, but have patenting problems. I googled a bit and found a repo called "multistanza" that initially has the purpose of hosting this kind of multiverse programs. deb http://multistanza.freedomdreams.co.uk/ binary-i386/ > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:55:04 +0930 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] homemade linux-libre kernel repo > > 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 >What do you mean by patenting problems? gNewSense contains the gstreamer set of plugins, which could fall under "patenting problems". Also, multistanza is a repository that is hosted on the owner's PC and doesn't have any form of reliable uptime. If we could host a fully free VLC (and other free multiverse programs) on the proposed repository, it wouldn't just be gNS users that would benefit from it. -- Russell Currey (ruscur/rusty) Noob programmer, FSF member and gNewSense contributor http://identi.ca/ruscur
I know the guy who wrote that script and hosted it, I will talk to him on and see if he still has it. I know that the repo because I was using the same server as him and we stopped using it.
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