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
>
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