On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 16:00, ext Luca Donaggio wrote: > 2006/9/26, Ed Bartosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 14:51, ext Luca Donaggio wrote: > > 2006/9/22, Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "ext Marius Gedminas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I hope that by the time OS2007 comes out, two things will > happen > > > > > > * all of the useful and tested packages will be uplosded > to the Garage > > > repository (repository.maemo.org/extras) > > > > This is mostly up to the maintainers of those packages, I'd > say. > > > > > > Well, the problem is that it is very difficult to upload a package > to the extras (formerly known as contrib) repository for us not using a > debian based distro :-) > > > Not 'that' difficult :) I've just uploaded new mplayer release to > extras from my old RedHat clone without any problem. > Here is the log. I hope it helps: > $ cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) > $ ls > mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7_armel.changes mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7.diff.gz > mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7_armel.deb mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7.dsc > $/scratchbox/devkits/debian/bin/debsign -e"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7_armel.changes > signfile mplayer_1.0pre8- maemo.7.dsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <skipped pathphrase's requests> > > Successfully signed dsc and changes files > $ scp * [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/extras/incoming/ > > That's it. After 2 minutes all mplayer files were accessible by apt > from extras repo. > > BTW, I didn't manage to sign packages in scratchbox because of gnupg > problem: > signfile mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7.dsc Ed Bartosh < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > gpg: WARNING: "--no-show-policy-url" is a deprecated option > gpg: please use "--list-options no-show-policy-urls" instead > gpg: WARNING: "--no-show-policy-url" is a deprecated option > gpg: please use "--verify-options no-show-policy-urls" instead > gpg: protection algorithm 3 is not supported > gpg: skipped "Ed Bartosh < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>": unknown cipher > algorithm > gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: unknown cipher algorithm > debsign: gpg error occurred! Aborting.... > > -- > Best regards, > Ed > > > You're right Ed, it's not a matter of linux flavour, but of availability of > debian utilities for your distribution. I know you can always download the > sources and install what you need, but I still think that if Maemo for > Scratchbox provided these tools just out-of-the-box life would be a little > bit easier for us ;-) ! > Anyway, I'm gonna try the Sardine way and see if I can manage to make it work. >
My point was a bit different. I tried to show that you can upload files to contrib (I mean extra) without any additional tools. Of course it's better to have working dput and debsign out of the box, but you don't have to wait for this, this is what I meant. -- Best regards, Ed _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list [email protected] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
