Roger Dingledine: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 12:36:51AM +0200, Linus Nordberg wrote: >> Just a thought. A few of the directory authorities, I think at least >> three, as well as the bridge authority run packages/ports only, not >> builds from source. We'd have to package our -da branch ourselves for >> those I guess. But that's probably a better option than the others. > > Right. The people who are willing to run from git generally are fine > running master (and helping to find bugs), so it's really the people > who only run from packages that we need to consider here. >
I think one thing to consider is just making the building of deb packages a bit easier. I did this with weasel in Italy and it wasn't actually too painful; if I were to document those steps, would anyone actually build debs for themselves? Or is the issue actually building the debs more than anything else? > Maybe we should just enumerate the eight directory authorities and their > habits, rather than trying to generalize too early? > > - I generally run moria1 from git master, to maximize the cool new bugs > I can find. I do the same. > > - I think weasel only runs tor26 from debs. I wonder what he would think > of us asking him to deb up a separate git branch for just a few people? > He says "I don't mind running 0.2.4 - it's not worse than running a fork > of 0.2.3." It seems like it might be nice to have a deb that builds a deb with custom options- sorta like the old djb packages. There are a lot of variants that would be nice - arm, tor-fw-helper, a specific git rev, etc. One package that generated a deb with your flavor of Tor would be pretty neat. I think though, I just heard weasel's head explode... ;-) > > - Linus runs maatuska from git, and is happy with git master too. > > - I'm not sure about gabelmoo, dizum, dannenberg, turtles, and urras. > I run urras from a frequently updated git tip of master. It has a few small patches but nothing major or of consequence. All the best, Jake _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev