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

[Erik Lönroth]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Holger Levsen <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> On Sonntag, 28. November 2010, Erik Lönroth wrote:
>> I would be more then glad to help out with the packaging in general.
>
> Yay!
>
>> Holger, maybe you can help me out getting started on the debian
>> package and we could go from there?
>
> start by checking out trunk
>
> svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-maint/deb-maint/olsrd/
>
> You will see that I was working on 0.6.0 in May... and then stopped as some of
> the patches didnt apply anymore and I had no time to resolve this. I have
> commited this now as it is and unresolved, see debian/changelog for details.
>
> And Henning (and everybody) please comment on the patches in
> http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/collab-maint/deb-maint/olsrd/trunk/debian/patches/ -
> I'd love to have zero ;-)
>
> Then use svn-buildpackage to build from there. It will pick up the tarball
> from ./tarballs/
>
> cd trunk
> svn-buildpackage
>
> You should use a Debian sid chroot for developing. Whether you use Debian or
> Ubuntu, its equally easy to create one:
>
> debootstrap sid ./path/to/some/dir http://ftp.de.debian.org
> chroot ./path/to/some/dir
> # then inside the chroot
> apt-get install build-essentials debhelper quilt bison flex svn-buildpackage
> svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-maint/deb-maint/olsrd/
> cd trunk
> svn-buildpackage
> # voila
>
> Once you made it so far, we can continue from there :-) Good luck & have fun!

I'll start out immediately.

>
> Is there an IRC channel you hang out at?
>

I'm on freenode. Where can I find you?

> Last but not least: collab-maint is a repository on alioth.debian.org
> where "anybody", not only Debian developers, can easily get an account. Just
> follow the instructions to get one. Then apply to become a collab-maint
> project member and then you can commit. I'd be happy to support you applying.
>

I'll check it out. Let me get some momentum first.

>
> cheers,
>        Holger
>