Debian APT Repository

[Joel Sherrill]

On 05/12/2010 01:27 PM, Kim George wrote:
> I'd like to try and tackle this automation project. Is there someone 
> willing to be a point of contact to help me with any issues or do I 
> just forward them to the users group?
>
Just keep asking on the user's list.  There is more
knowledge here. :)

--joel
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>
> *To:* Alin Rus <alin.codejunkie at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Kim George <kim.george83 at yahoo.com>; RTEMS Users Group 
> <rtems-users at rtems.org>
> *Sent:* Wed, May 12, 2010 1:54:10 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Debian APT Repository
>
> On 05/12/2010 12:51 PM, Alin Rus wrote:
> > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Alin Rus<alin.codejunkie at gmail.com 
> <mailto:alin.codejunkie at gmail.com>>  wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Kim George<kim.george83 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:kim.george83 at yahoo.com>>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I'm interested in setting up the Debian package APT repository and 
> updating
> >>> the wiki with details of Debian based installation of development 
> tools.
> >>>  From reading the website it sounds like there's already .deb 
> packages that
> >>> have been created by one of the GSoC people. Can anyone point me 
> towards
> >>> where these are so I can set up the repository.
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Kim George
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> rtems-users mailing list
> >>> rtems-users at rtems.org <mailto:rtems-users at rtems.org>
> >>> http://www.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/rtems-users
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> http://epics.nsls2.bnl.gov/debian/
> >>
> >>
> > Ok, just found out that there was a gsoc project, does anyone know if
> > it's still maintained?
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/rtems-debian-pkg/
> >
> >
> >
> No.  We wanted to merge it and support it but the student's
> approach required the maintenance of 100s of files.  The
> RPM specs are generated by autoconf, Makefile's, sed, etc
> from fragments and are easier to maintain.
>
> If deb packaging can be generated in a similar manner to
> the rpm specs in rtems/contrib/crossrpms, then we would
> love to see this merged.
>
> Then it is just an issue of being able to build them
> at OAR and host them.  That is another entirely
> different issue to address.
>
> --joel
>
>
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joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com        On-Line Applications Research
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