Hi Peter, thanks for your fast reply!
2013/5/14 "Dr. Peter Pöml" <pe...@poeml.de>: > I have gotten at least one request with interest for packaging on a recent > Ubuntu version. Unfortunately, I didn't find any time to look into it :( a few days ago, the Ubuntu 11.10 build we have used so far with 12.04 has disappeared. I now managed to repackage it at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/floeff/xUbuntu_11.10/ and managed to make it install on 12.04 as well. There are still some issues with the Python modules, as I manually need to do touch /usr/share/pyshared/mb/__init.py__ && ln -s /usr/share/pyshared/mb /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mb && apt-get -f install to make it work. Clearly it's only a small flag or somesuch missing, and only reveals my lack of developer knowledge, but I'm getting there. ;-) However, compiling specifically for Ubuntu 12.04 didn't work out, but then, I didn't investigate further yet. > There is subversion repository, which lives on the host that also serves > mirrorbrain.org, and write access is no problem. Of course, sending patches > here makes it easy to look at them by anyone interested, but many changes > don't need a discussion really, it depends. There is no procedure cast in > stone. I think, just let me know and do it in whichever way works for you > guys. Or if you want a different repository elsewhere, why not... Unless you have other plans, I think using the existing repositories makes a lot of sense. Our developers prefer git, but this should be no blocker in any way. :-) Cloning the repository at the OpenSUSE build service was just to create a Ubuntu 11.10 package, but if you can enable those builds again at your official repo, or grant me access to it so I can do so, my repository can vanish again. If I send you some OSB usernames, and some SSH keys, can you grant a few trusted TDF contacts (most of them you should know anyways) access, so we can have a look? Before changing things, we'd poke you, but having access to learn surely would help. What I could contribute is documentation. I must confess I found the initial setup quite confusing, so I have written my own documentation that I am happy to contribute. It's based on Ubuntu 12.04, and is scriptable - e.g. you set variables for the MB database and username+password, and then can install everything automatically. That's the way we document our stuff, but it can easily be rewritten to a regular style. How do you write and publish documentation at the moment? Via RST files? > That would be nice :) :-) > One big step forward with regard to availability of packaged binaries would > be to start packaging MirrorBrain upstream on Debian / Ubuntu. It would be > really great to have somebody with experience in this regard. So far, I lack insight here, but it sounds worthwhile learning a bit. At least right now, the OpenSUSE build service provided packages have some issues, but probably it's just my fault. > There are probably some things in MirrorBrain that could be improved to make > packaging easier (Makefiles, for instance) - to make it easier for upstream > people. I guess, MirrorBrain is not exactly easy to package right now. One thing I have on screen at least for Ubuntu 12.04 is IPv6 mod_geoip - the Ubuntu package doesn't provide that yet, so bundling one that works with MirrorBrain makes sense. Florian _______________________________________________ mirrorbrain mailing list Archive: http://mirrorbrain.org/archive/mirrorbrain/ Note: To remove yourself from this mailing list, send a mail with the content unsubscribe to the address mirrorbrain-requ...@mirrorbrain.org
