Hi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sebastian Rubenstein" <asdf123...@gmx.com> To: ""Samuli Seppänen"" <sam...@openvpn.net> Cc: <openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 9:49 AM Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Debian Jessie repository ?
> >Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 5:38 AM >>From: "Samuli Seppänen" <sam...@openvpn.net> >>To: "Florent B" <flor...@coppint.com>, openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Debian Jessie repository ? >> >>I'm the one who builds the official Debian/Ubuntu packages for OpenVPN. > > Thanks for your effort, Samuli, and also for letting us know that you're > responsible for it. > >>I'll see if I could produce packages the upcoming Friday. I suspect I >>can just borrow the control files from Debian and do a rebuild. > > May I suggest that instead of building and rebuilding packages for Debian > and Ubuntu yourself, why don't you teach us how to do it, that is, show us > how to build reproducible versions from source. After all both Debian and > Ubuntu are free and open source. In this way you free yourself from having > to do such a task and the time that you save can be better spent on other > projects. > > What do you think? > > **Quote attributed to Maimonides: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a > day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.** > Compiling the source for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) is fairly simple. Cross compiling on Linux for Windows is a little more "painful" but still achievable. Documented here: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/BuildingUsingGenericBuildsystem#Cross-compilingonNIXgenericsubdir Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
