• New Debian package for Fidogate

    From Jame Clay@1:120/544 to All on Sat Jun 2 12:44:07 2007
    All,
    I had gotten started on updating the Debian packageing for Fidogate,
    with the eventual intent of getting it back into Debian, but ended up
    having to take a bit of a break because the system I was doing the package testing on decided it didn't want to work anymore... I'm putting another
    system together for doing testing but in the mean time I decided I'd make changes in how the package gets built.

    I had been able to get the programs updated to the current version in
    CVS (v4.4.11) & I had an operational node running using those programs. Installs, however, were still broken: missing directorys, it still
    installing an old version of the config files, etc. Since I need to do
    changes anyway now that v4.0 of Debian (Etch) has been released, I've
    decided to update the packageing using the more current standards; need
    to do that in any case, in order to possibly get the package back in to
    the Debian distribution.

    File announcements of in-progress files will be in the usual File Announcment echos; & if no one has problems with the idea, I can have any
    such posted here as well... They will be available from my system in the
    i386 & source (and perhaps, amd64) sub-directories as follows:
    http://ftn.rocasa.us/files/ftn/apps/fidogate/debian/
    ftp://ftn.rocasa.us/ftn/apps/fidogate/debian/

    They will also be available for FREQ from my system via POTS,IBN, etc;
    and I will be using the following magics for current versions of them: FGDEBX86 & FGDEBSRC (& possibly, later, FGDEBA64). (Note that right now
    they only point to old versions...)


    Jame


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  • From ROBERT WOLFE@1:261/20 to Jame Clay on Mon Jun 4 07:23:04 2007
    Jame Clay wrote:
    clarity.)
    All,
    I had gotten started on updating the Debian packageing for Fidogate,
    with the eventual intent of getting it back into Debian, but ended up
    having to take a bit of a break because the system I was doing the package testing on decided it didn't want to work anymore... I'm putting another system together for doing testing but in the mean time I decided I'd make changes in how the package gets built.

    I had been able to get the programs updated to the current version in
    CVS (v4.4.11) & I had an operational node running using those programs. Installs, however, were still broken: missing directorys, it still installing an old version of the config files, etc. Since I need to do changes anyway now that v4.0 of Debian (Etch) has been released, I've
    decided to update the packageing using the more current standards; need
    to do that in any case, in order to possibly get the package back in to
    the Debian distribution.

    File announcements of in-progress files will be in the usual File Announcment echos; & if no one has problems with the idea, I can have any such posted here as well... They will be available from my system in the i386 & source (and perhaps, amd64) sub-directories as follows:
    http://ftn.rocasa.us/files/ftn/apps/fidogate/debian/
    ftp://ftn.rocasa.us/ftn/apps/fidogate/debian/

    They will also be available for FREQ from my system via POTS,IBN, etc; and I will be using the following magics for current versions of them: FGDEBX86 & FGDEBSRC (& possibly, later, FGDEBA64). (Note that right now
    they only point to old versions...)

    Oh sweet! :) I installed Debian 4 on my Sun Ultra 5 yesterday so this
    should be a hoot :) I am just glad they fixed the Sun Type 5 keyboard
    mapping problem with the Sparc version of Debian 4 before they released
    it :)
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  • From Jame Clay@1:120/544 to ROBERT WOLFE on Mon Jun 4 20:29:42 2007
    Robert,

    On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:23:04 -0400, ROBERT WOLFE wrote:

    I had been able to get the programs updated to the current version in
    CVS (v4.4.11) & I had an operational node running using those programs.
    Installs, however, were still broken: missing directorys, it still
    installing an old version of the config files, etc. Since I need to do
    changes anyway now that v4.0 of Debian (Etch) has been released, I've
    decided to update the packageing using the more current standards; need
    to do that in any case, in order to possibly get the package back in to
    the Debian distribution.

    Oh sweet! :) I installed Debian 4 on my Sun Ultra 5 yesterday so this
    should be a hoot :)

    You're already, or will be, running a news server there? If so; then Fidogate is a good choice for running an FTN node or point on it... And
    I'd be quite interested in how it does on that architecture...<g>



    Jame


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  • From Jame Clay@1:120/544 to ROBERT WOLFE on Fri Jul 20 11:12:33 2007
    On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:23:04 -0400, ROBERT WOLFE wrote:

    File announcements of in-progress files will be in the usual File
    Announcment echos; ....

    Oh sweet! :) I installed Debian 4 on my Sun Ultra 5 yesterday so this
    should be a hoot :)

    I did have an updated archive online, but I found some more problems
    with it, so I took them back off... I'll put something back online when
    I have a better package...


    Jame


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  • From R.J. Clay@1:120/544 to Jame Clay on Sat Sep 8 16:02:29 2007
    On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:12:33 -0400, Jame Clay wrote:

    On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:23:04 -0400, ROBERT WOLFE wrote:
    Oh sweet! :) I installed Debian 4 on my Sun Ultra 5 yesterday so this
    should be a hoot :)

    I did have an updated archive online, but I found some more problems
    with it, so I took them back off... I'll put something back online when
    I have a better package...

    I'm getting closer to that; I have an updated debian install of
    fidogate v4.4.11 (which is a development version) running at my 1:120/545
    node. If I don't find any major issues I'll make an updated Debian package
    & put it online.

    I'll also be starting on the packaging of v4.4.10, which is the most
    recent stable version...


    Jame

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  • From R.J. Clay@1:120/545 to Jame Clay on Sat Sep 8 16:13:23 2007
    On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:44:07 -0400, Jame Clay wrote:
    I had been able to get the programs updated to the current version in
    CVS (v4.4.11) & I had an operational node running using those programs. Installs, however, were still broken: missing directorys, it still installing an old version of the config files, etc.

    I have a test installation of v4.4.11 (the development version)
    running here, installed using an updated Debian package. I haven't
    put that one online as it still had problems; If the corrections I made
    seem to be working, I'll be creating a new package which I'll put online.
    In the mean time, it is available from CVS in the BRANCH_4_4 branch...

    I also intend to start working on packaging v4.4.10, which is the most recent stable vserion. That I'll also be putting online, once I have it
    far enoough along...


    Jame


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