[packman] request for packages

Pascal Bleser pascal.bleser at skynet.be
Fri May 26 15:08:55 CEST 2006


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Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2006-05-26 14:37:40 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
>>>> now Wengo has a new version 2.0 that is only available as a binary archive.
>> Again, they also have an RPM:
>> http://download.wengo.com/wengophone/beta/WengoPhone-2.0-beta1-linux-bin-x86.tar.bz2
>> (I guess the RPM is inside the tarball, at least they advertise it's an
>> RPM ;))
>>
>>> uhm not opensource either?
>> Wengo is open-source, they just don't make it very easy to get the
>> sources from the download page.
>>
>> One can grab the sources from their SVN repository:
>> http://dev.openwengo.com/trac/openwengo/trac.cgi/browser/wengophone-ng/trunk
>>
>> Wengophone is GPL:
>> http://dev.openwengo.com/trac/openwengo/trac.cgi/browser/wengophone-ng/trunk/wengophone/COPYING
> 
> who will take it pascal? you, me?

If you have some room/time to do so, please do ;)
I'd rather not.

>>> you would need permission to redistribute their stuff than. doesnt sound
>>> like stuff you want to go through.
>> AFAICS only Gizmo falls out, because it's not opensource. The others are.
>>
>> Richard Bos (rbos) already has some RPMs of twinkle:
>> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.1-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/
>> (only has 0.7, latest is 0.7.1)
> 
> twinkle is on 10.1 too. not that recent. but it is there. :)

Oh, good, a skeleton to start with :)

cheers
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