Thursday·27·October·2011
Daily Snapshot .debs of Conkeror //at 22:57 //by abe
Keeping track with packaging software which is under heavy development can be time-consuming. I noticed this while packaging Conkeror, because there was quite a demand for up-to-date packages, especially from upstream themself.
So recently on the IRC channel #conkeror the idea of automatically built Debian packages came up. After a few hours of experimenting and a few days of steadily optimizing, I can proudly present daily built snapshot packages of Conkeror for currently Lenny and Sid, ready to be included in your sources.list:
deb http://noone.org/conkeror-nightly-debs lenny main deb-src http://noone.org/conkeror-nightly-debs lenny main deb http://noone.org/conkeror-nightly-debs sid main deb-src http://noone.org/conkeror-nightly-debs sid main
The binary package conkeror-spawn-process-helper is currently only built for the i386 architecture, but other architectures may follow.
The packages probably work also on any other Debian based distribution (e.g. Ubuntu) which includes XULRunner version 1.9.
Surely they are not of the usual Debian quality, but they should do it for staying up-to-date with the Conkeror development just by using your favourite APT frontend.
The script which generates those packages is also available in the Conkeror git repository at repo.or.cz.
The APTable archive is generated with reprepro. Packages and the repository are signed with the passphrase-less GnuPG key 373B76B4 which is used only for the Conkeror nightly builds. (If anyone knows a better solution for automatic builds than a passphrase-less key, please tell me. :-)
P.S.: I really like the new keybindings “<<”, “>>” and
“G”. :-)
Tagged as: APT, Browser, build, Conkeror, daily, deb, Debian, git, GnuPG, gpg, i386, IRC, keybindings, Lenny, nightly, packaging, pgp, repo.or.cz, repository, reprepro, Sid, signing, snapshot, Ubuntu, XULRunner
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