Re: [Chicken-users] Debian packages for some eggs now available

[Leonardo Valeri Manera]

On 13/02/2008, Ivan Raikov <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>    I have "debianized" a number of eggs and have uploaded the
> resulting i386 binary packages to the Debian repository on
> chicken.wiki.br. Information on how to access that repository is here:
>
> http://chicken.wiki.br/Debian packages
>
>   The debianized eggs are mostly the prerequisites to svnwiki, plus a
> few others that I use regularly. (The full list is at
> http://chicken.wiki.br/debian-eggs) If you need Debian packages for
> any egg, just let me know. Next, I will be working on packaging
> ezxdisp and svnwiki itself.
>
>   I have also written a script that will almost automatically build
> Debian packages for all eggs that have a debian subdirectory in the
> SVN repository. I say almost automatically, because not all eggs have
> their documentation in the repository, so you will have to manually
> copy some HTML documentation from the Chicken website to the directory
> tree from which you are building. The script is called dpkg-eggs.scm
> and is located in the scripts subdirectory of the main Chicken SVN
> tree.
>
>    -Ivan

Nice work.

I'm nearly ready to start throwing egg gentoo ebuilds at people,
waiting on the final word on the install location that we're gonna
use...

If someone does something like your script for rpms, we'll have all
most main package types covered.

Bow to the chicken! \o/

Leo