[packman] request for packages

Adrian Jadic jadic at sbcglobal.net
Fri May 26 16:11:57 CEST 2006


Thank you for considering my proposal. If we could do just Gizmo and Twinkle 
it would be marvellous. 

Sincerely,
Adrian

On Friday 26 May 2006 08:08, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> 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/t
> >>runk
> >>
> >> Wengophone is GPL:
> >> http://dev.openwengo.com/trac/openwengo/trac.cgi/browser/wengophone-ng/t
> >>runk/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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