3 <title>Mini GForge/Sourceforge FAQ</title>
10 <blockquote><b>Answer:</b> <BR>
11 You can have a look <a href=http://people.debian.org/~bayle/debian />there</a>
12 to see what's available</blockquote>
15 How to get the packages?
17 <blockquote><b>Answer:</b> <BR>
18 Add the following lines to you /etc/apt/sources.list <pre>
19 deb http://people.debian.org/~bayle/debian stable/
20 deb-src http://people.debian.org/~bayle/debian stable/
22 deb http://christian.bayle.free.fr/debian stable/
23 deb-src http://christian.bayle.free.fr/debian stable/
24 </pre> (Christian's pages), or <pre>
25 deb http://people.debian.org/~lolando/debian unstable/
26 deb-src http://people.debian.org/~lolando/debian unstable/
28 deb http://roland.mas.free.fr/debian unstable/
29 deb-src http://roland.mas.free.fr/debian unstable/
30 </pre> (Roland's pages). Depending on our real life activity, one may be more
31 up-to-date than the other.<br>
35 You have now several possibilities:
37 <LI>You never installed any sourceforge or gforge package, just: <pre>
38 apt-get install gforge
39 </pre> and answer carefully to all the questions, it is preferable to let the
40 install touch your config files, though it's not the default because of
42 <LI>You want old sourceforge (more tested than gforge, with themes
43 and foundries, almost the classical 2.6.1 coming from the last known
44 cvs snapshot from VA. <pre>
45 apt-get install sourceforge
47 <LI>You want new gforge, but you have already sourceforge
50 apt-get install gforge-sourceforge-transition
51 </pre> will dump your db and move your files, then <pre>
52 apt-get install gforge
53 </pre> will uninstall sourceforge and install gforge with the dumped data
58 How to get the gforge source code?
60 <blockquote><b>Answer:</b> <BR>
62 <LI>From debian distro <BR>
68 cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gforge login
69 </pre> And just return for the password <pre>
70 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gforge co -d gforge-3.0 gforge
76 Where is the savannah project page?
78 <blockquote><b>Answer:</b> <BR>
79 <A href=http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gforge />http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gforge/</A>
83 Where is the Gforge home page?
85 <blockquote><b>Answer:</b> <BR>
86 <A href=http://gforge.org />http://gforge.org/</A></blockquote>
89 How do I build this packages?
90 <blockquote><b>Answer:</b> <BR>
91 go into gforge-3.0 dir and run <pre>
93 </pre> The debuild tool is in the devscripts Debian package. If you run this
94 command on Debian Woody (stable), you may have to upgrade some needed
95 tools (debconf, debhelper, ...). To do that, add the lines for Debian
96 testing in your apt sources file and then try something like: <pre>
97 apt-get -t <needed version> install debhelper
98 </pre> When the packages are built, do the following: <pre>
99 mkdir /directory_of_your_choice/debian
100 cd /directory_of_your_choice
101 dpkg-scanpackages debian /dev/null | gzip > debian/Packages.gz
102 echo "deb file:/directory_of_your_choice debian/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
104 apt-get install gforge
108 Where do I find help?
110 <blockquote><b>Answer:</b> <BR>
111 For more info you can join us on IRC at irc.openprojects.net on #gforge
112 (GForge package) or #debian-devel-fr (French) <BR>
113 Mailing lists are there: <A
114 HREF=http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=gforge>http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=gforge</A>