libera/#devuan/ Friday, 2020-09-25

drgibbonIs there a community packaging system for Devuan, say something like AUR for Arch?03:00
fsmithredhuh?03:02
fsmithredall the debian packaging tools are available.03:03
golinuxI think he might be talking about ppas03:03
DonkeyHoteiubuntu's PPA are the same as arch's AUR03:04
fsmithredah, ok03:04
fsmithredwe don't have anything quite like that03:04
fsmithreda few people do make their own packages available, but it's very informal03:05
drgibbonI see05:00
drgibbonso just trying to a get a handle on how it works at the community level, say there's some program that's not in the main repo and I want to package it, can that be added into the main package repo, or I would I host my own PPA style thing? Sorry, I've never really used Ubuntu/Debian systems seriously, I'm on Slackware mostly :)05:25
gnarfacedrgibbon: you would have to set up your own unofficial repo, or get someone else with an unofficial repo to host your package.05:55
drgibbonok thanks05:55
gnarfacedrgibbon: there are packages in the repo for setting up your own repo05:56
gnarfacedrgibbon: it's not really different from Ubuntu except that we don't call them by a fancy acronym or endorse them in any way05:56
gnarfacedrgibbon: last time i had to do this i used reprepro, it seems to work though the setup was a little confusing at first it was mostly just about how deeply nested the paths are05:57
drgibboncool, yeah my knowledge of Debian (and its derivatives) is pretty minimal.05:58
gnarfacewell it's probably worth mentioning that there's a 3rd option too; get the package accepted by Debian and it will appear in Devuan automatically06:01
gnarfacenow, they work on a scheduled release cycle, with pre-release freezes on included software and their major versions06:02
gnarfaceso you'll never get it into beowulf, but there is a chance of getting it into future releases if you start the ball rolling now06:02
gnarfacei don't know if that's overkill for what you intend or not, i was disconnected for a while there so i may have missed stuff you said06:05
gnarfaceeven reprepro may be overkill for what you need06:05
gnarfacenever underestimate the value of a file share full of *.deb files06:06
drgibbonOK thanks that's helpful. At the moment I'm more just looking around at how different (non-systemd) distributions work.06:15
n4dirfor a raspberry pi there is only ascii ? I got that right? And second question: i only got a Raspberry 116:30
fsmithredcommunity disk images (unofficial) http://arm-files.devuan.org/16:32
fsmithredand there are installers for various arm stuff16:32
fsmithredI'll get a link16:32
n4dirok thanks16:32
fsmithredhttps://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/beowulf/main/16:33
fsmithredgo into installer-arm*/current/16:33
fsmithredpoke around. There's a lot.16:33
fsmithredI don't know what to do with any of those files16:34
n4diryeah, that info is enough.16:35

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