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Sat, 4 Jan 2014 02:13:02 -0500 |
Dear Jason,
Happy New Year.
I followed your suggestion and put together a Debian package
repository for WP-MIRROR and its dependencies. I built it on my
development platform, and pushed it with `rsync --delete' to
<http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/wp-mirror/>. I thought it
best to get this bit of infrastructure up and running before tackling
the bigger job of packaging `mediawiki' and its extensions.
1) Documentation
I describe how to use new repository in two places:
1.1) WP-MIRROR home page
<http://www.nongnu.org/wp-mirror/>, and
1.2) WP-MIRROR 0.7 Reference Manual
<http://www.nongnu.org/wp-mirror/manual/>
Section 2.1.5 Verifying Package Integrity Using Checksums or GnuPG
Section 2.2.1 Installing from a Debian Repository
2) Undocumented steps
In a previous e-mail, dated 2013-12-19, you mentioned that ``...
installing the debian package from the cli involved a few extra
undocumented steps that a lot of people aren't familiar with ...'' I
hope you will tell me about any such steps, so that I may improve the
documentation.
3) /etc/apt/sources.list.d
I came across a suggestion that, rather than ask users to append a
line to `/etc/apt/sources.list'; I should instead put the same line in
a file, post the file, and ask the users to download and store said
file under `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/.'
Do you have an opinion as to which method is more user friendly?
4) /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
I also read a suggestion that, rather than ask users to download and
import the author's GPG public key (using `gpg --recv-keys', and
`apt-keys add'); I should instead put the GPG public key in a file,
post the file, and ask the users to download and store said file under
`/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/.'
Do you have an opinion as to which method is more user friendly?
Actually, you did mention that such a file could be packaged so that
it could be more easily updated. And I did slightly edit the key, by
imposing an expiration date, and uploading it to a keyserver (updated
keys rapidly propagate to all major keyservers).
5) Testing
Please try out the new repository, and let me know of any issues.
Sincerely Yours,
Kent
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