Jewels - not FOSS

[ciaran at ciarang.com]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:58:17 +0200, <graziano at sorbaioli.org> wrote:
> 
> Is there some volunteer willing to create and maintain the replicant
libre
> repository on http://replicant.us/repo ??
> 
> If so then please email me your ssh public key and I will ask our
hosting
> to provide you ftp access to that dir so that we can start to have a
barely
> official repo with the right uri.
> 

If you want to use my FDroid app as the client (as per the suggestion in
my earlier mail), you could just mirror my repository from
http://f-droid.org/repo to the replicant.us server for the time being.
Based on our discussion earlier, I'm pretty sure I won't be putting
anything in there that is unsuitable for the replicant project - it's all
going to be as free as free can be.

There would be several ways of achieving this - a) I'm happy to run a
script on my server to periodically rsync it across (or FTP if necessary,
but it's less efficient), b) you could run a script on the replicant server
to periodically wget it all (also inefficient), c) I could include it in my
rsync run for my own server, so they both get updated simultaneously, d)
someone else from replicant could handle mirroring it.

Or you could maintain a totally separate repository, using my server build
tools. (I don't have time to maintain a separate repo, but I can certainly
support someone who does have the time).

I can't make my repo compatible with Aptoide or APKtor though, due to the
extra license metadata and multiple
versions per application. Potentially someone could make a script to
convert it though.

(Note that my client by default connects to http://f-droid.org/repo, and
you'd have to remove this through the UI and add http://replicant.us/repo
instead. Perhaps at some point we could make it somehow configurable, maybe
at build time, or fork it, so there's a replicant-specific build that uses
the replicant repo by default instead)

Lots of ideas to consider there. I'm happy to help in any way possible.

Ciaran