[Olsr-users] [Olsr-dev] OLSRd release 0.6.1

[Erik Lönroth]

I would be more then glad to help out with the packaging in general.

Holger, maybe you can help me out getting started on the debian
package and we could go from there?

/Erik


On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> On Sunday 28 November 2010 15:53:33 Holger Levsen wrote:
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>> Hi Henning, hi *,
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>>
>
>> On Sonntag, 28. November 2010, Henning Rogge wrote:
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>> > I tried to contact Holger Levsen for 0.6.0 too, but without much
>> > success.
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>> > I think I will write a mail to a general debian mailing list next week,
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>> > it's really a shame that Debian (even testing and unstable) are still on
>
>> > 0.5.6.r7
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>>
>
>> I agree and I'm sorry for this. I was too busy with other stuff when the
>
>> freeze came and couldnt give olsrd the love it deserves.
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>>
>
>> Sadly the diff from the version in squeeze to 0.6.1 (and even 0.6 and
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>> 0.5.6r8) is very probably too big to get accepted by the release team, so
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>> that I havent even tried.
>
> 0.6.1 could be called 0.5.6-r10...
>
> 0.6.0 had some new features (smartgateway and niit support), but you could
> change the default settings of OLSRd to switch them off on default, so there
> is not that many functional changes between 0.5.6 and 0.6.1.
>
>> My plan is to upload olsrd to squeeze-backports as soon as possible. And
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>> thats also why I want squeeze to be released with olsrd (0.5.6.r7), to
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>> have a upgrade path.
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> 0.5.6-r7 was not a pretty good release... even 0.5.6-r8 would be MUCH
> better.
>
>> Help maintaining olsrd in Debian is certainly welcome - I'm also happy to
>
>> help get someone started.
>
> Maybe it would be a good idea to put the necessary files to create a .deb
> file into our repository. I think most of the patches in the debian creation
> could be replaced by a few variables set in the deb-makefile.
>
> This would make it easier to test OLSRd on debian because everyone could
> create a .deb file.
>
>> > AND are saying in the desription that OLSRd is still an
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>> > experimental protocol, so you should not run it without debug output in
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>> > the console.
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>>
>
>> A bug report about this would have been appreciated.
>
> I noticed it this week when I looked through the state of the debian/ubuntu
> OLSRd repository.
>
> Henning Rogge
>
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