Re: [Gnewsense-dev] homemade linux-libre kernel repo

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:08:03 +0000
Elias Angulo <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:06:22 +0300
> > Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] homemade linux-libre kernel repo
> > From: address@hidden
> > To: address@hidden; address@hidden
> > CC: 
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Karl Goetz<address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:40:50 +0000
> > > Elias Angulo <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Well, i think it have some advantages, as it can be updatet
> > >> automatically by the system.. I will have the repo uptodate as
> > >> soon new versions come. People with my repo enabled in his
> > >> sources.list will only have to do:

> > > if you'd done so before hand you would have had a chance to work
> > > together on it ....
> > > kk
> > 
> > I used to maintain an apt repo for the free kernels, but stopped
> > doing so after a while. Installing latest kernels on such a distro
> > like gNS with a rather older collection of programs sometimes
> > causes problems. (I remember X malfunctioning after one of the
> > releases on some people's machines.) So, having people's kernels
> > automatically upgrading is, in my opinion, prone to a great number
> > of user problems that don't have to happen. And if you think
> > freedom shoppe kernels are also used by users of other distros such
> > as Ubuntu and Debian, the potential of user complaints just looks
> > to big for me.
> > 
> > Feel free to share your experience with kernel repo maintanence,
> > Elias :)
> 
> Well, the server has been up since i set it up and its pretty stable.
> I reaches sometimes 100kb/s. At the moment im looking for the
> linux-libre kernel source in a tarball; perhaps the missing .dsc file
> would be in there. What i'm looking for is a kind of fle with the
> description and other stuff that dpgk-scansources can read. Here's a
> copy of part of man dkpg-scansources:

(trim)
 
> So, Ali, if youre at charge of maintain those packages, could you
> make that file and a tar.gz for the source including it? I found
> strange, a source in a .deb package, its the first time i've seen.

Its standard practise in Debian/Ubuntu.

> The target of the repo its not only to host kernel-libre. I could
> host any Free package not available in other repos. It was idea of
> Ark74, calling it Libre Repo, for this purpose. Im open to
> suggestions. :D

If your going to make a 3rd party repository make sure its got some
quality standards (start with lintian clean). I started making up a
list of requirements for a 3rd party repo I was planning to set up, I
can find it if you want.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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