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A previous attempt was interrupted because packaging-farm did not support the generation of binary kernel modules packages using module-assistant. A new release implementing this feature, together with support for reprepro was published today (version 1.2.31). The resulting repository should be useable instead of the official lenny-xivo-gallifrey-dev.
Continue reading “Creating an independant XiVO Debian GNU/Linux repository from scratch (part 4/4)”
A previous attempt was interrupted because of missing dependencies and a failure to compile the sangoma-wanpipe package for i386. The dependencies were fixed and the sangoma-wanpipe compiled : the lenny i386 gallifrey repository is now complete. The packaging-farm needs to be improved to support building the kernel binary modules using module-assistant, when appropriate.
Continue reading “Creating an independant XiVO Debian GNU/Linux repository from scratch (part 3/4)”
A previous attempt was interrupted because it was impractical to create dependencies between XiVO packages manually. A new version of the packaging-farm was released to address this problem. A new attempt was made and more packages were produced for the lenny i386 gallifrey repository and the squeeze x86_64 skaro repository. The issues found will be addressed before another attempt is made.
Continue reading “Creating an independant XiVO Debian GNU/Linux repository from scratch (part 2/4)”
Forking means publishing your own modified version and is a common practice in Free Software. Forking a package repository is less common but useful nevertheless. Here is how it can be done for i386 using packaging-farm and the XiVO Debian GNU/Linux repository for lenny. The stable (Gallifrey) repository is preferred although it could be done with the more recent (Skaro) repository.
Continue reading “Creating an independant XiVO Debian GNU/Linux repository from scratch (part 1/4)”
The XiVO Qt client is packaged for Debian GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOsX (prefer the git version over the directory referenced by the wiki). The codebase and the package is being maintained by Corentin Le Gall (aka kaou on irc.freenode.net#xivo). When the code is in a stable state, he logs in a dedicated server and runs the package generation scripts found in the cross directory of the sources (read cross as in cross compilation).
Continue reading “XiVO client packaging, server source policy and packaging-farm updates”
This is the first post of a series dedicated to XiVO packaging and its associated tools. This is my first attempt at understanding the subject and my knowledge mostly comes from interviewing Nicolas Hicher and Sylvain Boily. If I misrepresented the reality, I would be happy to fix my mistakes.
The XiVO server is available in many flavors :
virtual machines ( Gallifrey install cd, Xen Image … ), deb packages repositories ( as explained in Install XiVO From Scratch or Install XiVO With a CD … ).