Hi, On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 03:20:40 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi Peter, > > thanks for your fast reply!
Sometimes it takes a little longer ;) > 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. I see issue 122 about this. I'll look at it. > > 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. It seems that Ubuntu 11.10 was renamed in the openSUSE build service (it had 'x' in front in the past). I reenabled it. (Do you still need it? It has been a while.) I also added you as openSUSE build service maintainer to the Apache:MirrorBrain project. > 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. Thanks for the offer! I'll send you svn credentials shortly. > 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. Sounds great! > How do you write and publish documentation at the moment? Via RST files? Exactly. > > 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. As long as the Debian/Ubuntu packages from the openSUSE build service are a little bit cared for, they don't seem to be so bad. > > 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. I agree. > Florian Best, Peter
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