On Tuesday 22 Feb 2011 21:49:57 Ximin Luo wrote:
> See the contrib-staging and debian-staging repos for details. We are fairly
> close work-wise (don't know about time-wise, I don't have a lot atm) to a
> custom debian package. However, we're far from an official package in the
> debian project's "main" archive, mainly because a lot of our dependencies
> aren't in debian.

Freenet cannot be in main until 1.0, as a matter of policy. We need to be able 
to update nodes regularly.

Maybe volatile?
> 
> TODO for custom debian package:
> - deploy contrib-legacy-27 (this is ready now, but needs testing)
> - execute [1] in fred/README.dev
> - deploy contrib-master (v28)
> - execute [2] in fred/README.dev
> 
> TODO for a debian package in main:
> - package db4o-java, lzma, lzmajio, mantissa, bitcollider in debian - we
> currently bundle them with the freenet-ext package
> - edit the debian packaging files to use service-wrapper rather than our own
> custom /etc/init.d scripts
> 
> If you help, the work will get done quicker.
> 
> X
> 
> On 22/02/11 21:23, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 Feb 2011 19:29:56 Michiel de Jong wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I agree Freenet is definitely one of the first pieces of software that
> >> should be included in the FreedomBox. Within the FreedomBox project, there
> >> is currently a consensus to make FreedomBox a Debian Pure Blend. So what is
> >> needed for that is for Freenet to be a debian package. I couldn't find any,
> >> is there any? If not, then that would be what needs doing. Is there anyone
> >> who would be able to package freenet for debian?
> > 
> > There has been work on a debian package and repository. infinity0 most 
> > recently looked into it, but he was in the process of changing some 
> > structural issues in the node to make it easier. I will forward...
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Michiel de Jong
> >> ---
> >> Unhosted.org
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Daniel Kanaan <da...@kanaan.org.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Fantastic concept.  It seems silly when people have big PC's with all 
> >>> those
> >>> spare resources to have to rely on a tiny mini-server such as described in
> >>> the article, but when you take in consideration that my PC requires over
> >>> 200Watts, then it starts to make sense, just as a cost cutting and power
> >>> saving mech.  I know I hate leaving my machine on just for freenet.
> >>>
> >>> So, guys, why not get involved?
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:56 PM, vive wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Thought this may be interesting for the community,
> >>>>
> >>>>       Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Can't Find You
> >>>>       http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Sounds just like an application of Freenet.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> V.

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