David Wolinsky wrote (23 Dec 2013 20:13:28 GMT) : > What is the ideal build environment for building binaries that will be run > in Tails? Would a squeeze chroot in addition to the tails apt sources be > sufficient.
Thank you for asking. A Squeeze chroot would be enough for quick experiments. For basically anything else, we want a proper Debian package, that must be part of Debian unless it is not relevant for Debian. > I'm working on a project to extend Tails to use virtualization similar to > whonix :) > and need to build a tool called redsocks written using C. > https://github.com/darkk/redsocks .. it is in the latest Debian but not in > squeeze. Then, what we need is a backport for Squeeze. I've just tried to build one based on Wheezy's 0.4+dfsg-1, and it was trivial (for a Debian developer); I just had to make the build-dependency on libevent >= 2.0 explicit, as the build fails when built against Squeeze's libevent 1.4. Good news is that I've uploaded a libevent 2.0 backport for Squeeze a while ago :) >From this point, 1. either we think it would benefit Debian users to be able to use this backport => I'll upload the package to the official squeeze-backports archive; 2. or we don't => we'll to carry the backport in our own APT repository => I'll create a dedicated suite and push the package there, once you tell me the name of the feature/* branch you need this in. Given Squeeze is nearly EOL and redsocks as a pretty low popcon [1], I tend to prefer #2. What do you think? [1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=redsocks Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
