That seems fairly complicated. Archlinux users (I am one) have a very rudimentary yet it does its job very well freenet PKGBUILD.
It just uses a headless archive, creates a freenet user and uses a custom rc.freenet for the daemon (that's how Arch works, BSD-style init, much simpler). Maybe you'd like to have a look at it : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25644 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freenet/freenet/PKGBUILD On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Masayuki Hatta <mhatta at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, thanks for suggestions. > > 2010/8/2 Ximin Luo <infinity0 at gmx.com>: > >> 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. > > In the long run, freenet should be a part of Debian -- that's my > ultimate goal. ?However, I think it would be better for now if the > project would have an official APT repository or such. > >> 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. > > Right. ?I changed the package name from "fred" to "freenet-daemon". ?I > think it's more descriptive. > > Best regards, > MH > > -- > Masayuki Hatta <mhatta at gmail.com> > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
