Building packages for IPFire 3.x

Building packages for IPFire 3.x

[Peter Müller]

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Hello *,

sorry for being so quiet during the last weeks.

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 .

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/ ?

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?

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller
-- 
Microsoft DNS service terminates abnormally when it recieves a response
to a DNS query that was never made.  Fix Information: Run your DNS
service on a different platform.
		-- bugtraq

Re: Building packages for IPFire 3.x

[Michael Tremer]

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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

Re: Building packages for IPFire 3.x

[Peter Müller]

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Hello Michael,
>[...]> 
>> 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.
Okay, thanks for the clarification.
> 
>> 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
No, I missed it. But it answers many questions. :-)
> 
> Are there any questions you have that are not answered there?
Currently, no, but I have not started packaging yet. If anything is not clear,
I will post it here.

Let's hope 3.x development takes off a bit better...

Thanks, and best regards,
Peter Müller
> 
> Best,
> -Michael- 
Microsoft DNS service terminates abnormally when it recieves a response
to a DNS query that was never made.  Fix Information: Run your DNS
service on a different platform.
		-- bugtraq

Re: Building packages for IPFire 3.x

[Michael Tremer]

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On Mon, 2018-11-26 at 18:16 +0100, Peter Müller wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> > [...]> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Okay, thanks for the clarification.
> > 
> > > 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
> 
> No, I missed it. But it answers many questions. :-)
> > 
> > Are there any questions you have that are not answered there?
> 
> Currently, no, but I have not started packaging yet. If anything is not clear,
> I will post it here.
> 
> Let's hope 3.x development takes off a bit better...

Sure it does :)

> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller
> > 
> > Best,
> > -Michael- 
> 
> Microsoft DNS service terminates abnormally when it recieves a response
> to a DNS query that was never made.  Fix Information: Run your DNS
> service on a different platform.
> 		-- bugtraq