2006/9/26, Ed Bartosh <Eduard.Bartosh at nokia.com>: > > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 14:51, ext Luca Donaggio wrote: > > 2006/9/22, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>: > > "ext Marius Gedminas" <marius at pov.lt> writes: > > > > > I hope that by the time OS2007 comes out, two things will > happen > > > > > > * all of the useful and tested packages will be uplosded to > the Garage > > > repository (repository.maemo.org/extras) > > > > This is mostly up to the maintainers of those packages, I'd say. > > > > > > Well, the problem is that it is very difficult to upload a package to > the extras (formerly known as contrib) repository for us not using a debian > based distro :-) > > > Not 'that' difficult :) I've just uploaded new mplayer release to extras > from my old RedHat clone without any problem. > Here is the log. I hope it helps: > $ cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) > $ ls > mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7_armel.changes mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7.diff.gz > mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7_armel.deb mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7.dsc > $/scratchbox/devkits/debian/bin/debsign -e"eduard.bartosh at nokia.com" > mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7_armel.changes > signfile mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7.dsc eduard.bartosh at nokia.com > > <skipped pathphrase's requests> > > Successfully signed dsc and changes files > $ scp * ed_ at garage.maemo.org:/var/www/extras/incoming/ > > That's it. After 2 minutes all mplayer files were accessible by apt from > extras repo. > > BTW, I didn't manage to sign packages in scratchbox because of gnupg > problem: > signfile mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.7.dsc Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com> > gpg: WARNING: "--no-show-policy-url" is a deprecated option > gpg: please use "--list-options no-show-policy-urls" instead > gpg: WARNING: "--no-show-policy-url" is a deprecated option > gpg: please use "--verify-options no-show-policy-urls" instead > gpg: protection algorithm 3 is not supported > gpg: skipped "Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com>": unknown cipher > algorithm > gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: unknown cipher algorithm > debsign: gpg error occurred! Aborting.... > > -- > Best regards, > Ed > You're right Ed, it's not a matter of linux flavour, but of availability of debian utilities for your distribution. I know you can always download the sources and install what you need, but I still think that if Maemo for Scratchbox provided these tools just out-of-the-box life would be a little bit easier for us ;-) ! Anyway, I'm gonna try the Sardine way and see if I can manage to make it work. Luca Donaggio -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20060926/2b8bad1e/attachment.htm
