>> 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?
Hi, The packaging/build system I wrote is available on GitHub: <https://github.com/mattock/sbuild_wrapper> I prefer to build the official packages them myself. However, adding support for new distributions requires some effort, and that development work can be done by others. So patches that improve the scripts, documentation or add more operating systems to the supported list are most welcome :). That said, I managed to generate Debian 8 packages today and they are now in the official repository. Building was a bit of a hassle, because my build rig is on Debian 7 and some dependencies were missing. If you setup your own sbuild_wrapper instance, I suggest basing it on Debian 8 or a very recent Ubuntu version (15.10). This helps avoid issues with missing (pre-)build dependencies on the build rig itself. Best regards, -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
