From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Building packages for IPFire 3.x Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 13:48:33 +0000 Message-ID: <1bc13eca5e5042313a50cb61aaa6eb12b5f19d59.camel@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7227890080466876647==" List-Id: --===============7227890080466876647== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, On Sun, 2018-11-25 at 20:56 +0100, Peter Müller wrote: > Hello *, > > sorry for being so quiet during the last weeks. yes, I was already getting worried and gave you a call :) > Updating packages and provide some system hardening (kernel, SSH, et al.) > for IPFire 3.x is on my todo list for a long time now. While searching for > further information about how to build packages for this distribution, > I came across https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/build_package/start . Yes, that's correct. > As far as I understood, an instance of IPFire 3.x is needed to build > packages on it; there is no other way documented. Is this correct? What > happened to https://pakfire.ipfire.org/ ? The webUI is currently offline. I am quite busy with the rest of the infrastructure, but when that is done, this will be next. You can build packages without this, but you cannot do any scratch builds. > Further, the *.nm files seem to be somewhat tricky. A quick lookup in the > wiki did not show up any noob documentation. In case the is one available > (man page, etc.), how do I find it? Have you seen this? https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/pakfire/start Are there any questions you have that are not answered there? Best, -Michael > > Thanks, and best regards, > Peter Müller --===============7227890080466876647==--