Jewels - not FOSS

[Pat Primate]

As a non-technical observer of this discussion, I just want to thank 
Ciaran for his generous offer to help out with his very interesting 
software and expertise. It sounds to me like this would be quite 
compatible with Replicant's goals - but I'll leave it up to the more 
technical folks on the mailing list to decide.

Cheers,

Pat

On 10-10-21 12:54 PM, ciaran at ciarang.com wrote:
> 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
>
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