[tor-bugs] #4162 [Tor bundles/installation]: arm/torctl rpms for deb.tpo

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#4162: arm/torctl rpms for deb.tpo
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 Reporter:  atagar                    |          Owner:  erinn
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Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:       
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Comment(by atagar):

 > Do you want upload access or do you want to get Juan upload access?

 Me. I'd be signing and uploading the arm/torctl rpms. Juan would then test
 and maybe upload them to Fedora.

 > I think it is actually more important to get the rpms into Fedora than
 our repos.

 I strongly disagree unless the Fedora repos are already getting an up to
 date copy of Tor. As mentioned in the tor-assistants@ thread there's no
 point for arm or torctl to be present in any repositories where Tor
 doesn't reside.

 > But I may be able to automate some of it by then, since that is one of
 my "very high priority" things, which could make it easier.

 That would be sweet - fingers crossed that it works.

 > get the rpms into Fedora first. that's where most of the users are. I
 don't have stats, but I don't think our rpm repos have many users.

 Hm... we tell users to avoid native rpm repositories since from what we
 understand they're unmaintained and dangerous. I agree that it's
 preferable for Tor/arm/torctl to all reside there with a maintainer since
 most users probably ignore this warning, but until we have this maintainer
 it seems odd to say "Yay, arm/torctl are in native repositories! But don't
 use them for tor - that's dangerous."

 > find a way for me to generalize the rpm repos such that multiple
 uploaders can do it (giving me a document or explaining how other distros
 do it here is fine)

 Juan?

 > ask me again in a month?

 Will do - thanks. :)

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