On 02/08/10 06:19, Masayuki Hatta wrote: > Hi everyone, > Hey, welcome back!
> Almost a year ago, I made Debian/Ubuntu packaging scripts for > Freenet(fred) & Co.(fms, jsite, etc.)[1]. Since I've been quite > busy(and my Debian-running laptop crashed), I largely abandoned them > for a while. However, recently I could find some time (and saw some > interesting discussion here about Debian/FHS compliance), I managed to > update fred package to the current revision 1263. I think the users > of this package can use Freenet really out of the box. My packaging > is as much faithful to Debian/FHS as I could, so you may use this as a > test bed(of course, there are still many problem such as putting > freenet.ini in /var/lib/fred instead of more proper /etc/fred or > somewhere, etc). > I'll have a look at modifying the code to use different directories for different files, rather than just node.nodeDir, as I suggested in [1] - can you have a look to see if it's OK? [1] http://new-wiki.freenetproject.org/Talk:Program_files What are your intentions for the package? Are you building these just so freenet has some .debs? In this case we can host our own APT repository, with our own keys, and I can set that up with reprepro. Or do you plan to make it an official Debian package (it will have to stay in sid for a while, and not go to testing or stable; or maybe put it in debian-volatile?) I think freenet satisfies DFSG but I dunno about the "Standards Version" stuff. Then there is freenet-ext.jar, which will probably have to be broken up into individual packages. > You may get pre-built(on Debian amd64) debs from under > http://people.debian.org/~mhatta/debian, and of course you may rebuild > them if you want(Build-Deps are carefully set). Also, this time I > pushed files into Freenet GitHub repo(debian-staging). See > debian-staging/README for building instructions. > IMO "freenet" or maybe "freenetd" is a better name, because it's easier to search for. Not many users refer to it as "fred", and it will confuse people who do `aptitude search` or synaptic search. BTW, you can use git submodules, instead of telling the user to manually clone it into the folder. Also, it would be nice if you packaged plugins into a separate package, say "freenet-plugins-official" or something. > BTW, I noticed a few problem: > > 1. Currently, so-called headless build (without setting DISPLAY) > fails. This is a serious problem since the automated build daemon is > quite common not only in Debian but also other distros in general > these days. Seems the culprit is AWT, but I can't figure out why. I > attached the log from failed build session using by pbuilder[2]. > > 2. The build system around GWT is not so sophisticated, IMHO. Seems > it requires to put some needed .jar's into generator/js/lib, and the > file name in build.xml is wrong(GWT.lib.dev should be > gwt-dev-linux.jar on GNU/Linux), etc. > > 3. The home-brew build of freenet-ext.jar still fails. Is there > anyone who could actually do that? > I'll try out the debian build at some point, but building contrib-staging directly, works for me last time I tried, what error are you getting? It involves some C builds too. > 4. Still not using Java wrapper(thus automated update doesn't work). > I did begin to work on this a year ago, but I need to refresh my > memory now...also, as toad puts it, it can be debatable whether it > should be allowed to modify the installed binary(in this case > /usr/share/java/freenet-cvs-snapshot.jar or such) by means other than > installing updated .deb., at least FHS-wise. > IMO we should disable auto-update for deb builds, and have APT take care of this. > Maybe more, I'll let you know when I encountered it... > > As always, help/comments/suggestions/hacks are highly welcomed. Also, > if it's okay I'll add some information about this packaging into Wiki. > http://new-wiki.freenetproject.org/Packaging/Debian would be a good place :) Put it under [[Category:Project]]. > Best regards, > MH > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/devl at freenetproject.org/msg23430.html > > [2] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/pbuilder.html.en >
