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zooko 2008-04-12 03:10:49 +00:00
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We want to package Tahoe for people to download and use and we want to use
3rd-party libraries. The following are our current desiderata:
* For certain deployment targets, we can produce a Tahoe binary package for
* For certain deployment targets (namely, recent Debian and recent or Long-Term Support Ubuntu), we produce a Tahoe binary package for
that platform, ship that package to a user using that platform, they can
install that package, and it will work. That is: user doesn't have to
manually satisfy any dependencies by building other packages.
* For Ubuntu "edgy" and "feisty" platforms, as well as Debian "etch" and "lenny", this
is accomplished by adding the following clause to
* This is accomplished by adding the following clause to
`/etc/apt/sources.list` and then running
`apt-get install allmydata-tahoe`:
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deb http://allmydata.org/debian $DIST main tahoe
```
* this covers all major Debian and Ubuntu platforms released in the last year.
For libraries that Tahoe uses, we have these desiderata:
* We use the source code as it is written by upstream. That is: no patching