Re: Building packages for IPFire 3.x

["Peter Müller" <peter.mueller@link38.eu>]

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Hello Michael,
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>> 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- 
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