Re: [tor-dev] We need a new RPM maintainer

2016-06-24 Thread nusenu
> Frankly, I don't know. I don't actually install Tor from packages > myself, since I'm nearly always running Tor from master. > > People who download our RPMs: in what way are they beneficial? since no one spoke up, I created: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19501 signature.a

Re: [tor-dev] We need a new RPM maintainer

2016-06-18 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On 06/17/2016 12:53 PM, Henry de Valence wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:19:15AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:06 AM, nusenu wrote: >>> What is the Tor Project's motivation for providing RPMs (instead of >>> relying on the RPM distro maintainer)? >> >> Frankly, I d

Re: [tor-dev] We need a new RPM maintainer

2016-06-17 Thread Ondrej Mikle
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Henry de Valence wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:19:15AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:06 AM, nusenu wrote: > > > What is the Tor Project's motivation for providing RPMs (instead of > > > relying on the RPM distro maintainer)? >

Re: [tor-dev] We need a new RPM maintainer

2016-06-17 Thread Henry de Valence
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:19:15AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:06 AM, nusenu wrote: > > What is the Tor Project's motivation for providing RPMs (instead of > > relying on the RPM distro maintainer)? > > Frankly, I don't know. I don't actually install Tor from package

Re: [tor-dev] We need a new RPM maintainer

2016-06-16 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:06 AM, nusenu wrote: > What is the Tor Project's motivation for providing RPMs (instead of > relying on the RPM distro maintainer)? Frankly, I don't know. I don't actually install Tor from packages myself, since I'm nearly always running Tor from master. People who dow

Re: [tor-dev] We need a new RPM maintainer

2016-06-16 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
I can do it. I already package my own RPMs, so I may as well do that properly. No ldap account though. Tom > On 16 Jun 2016, at 15:06, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > Hi, all! > > Ondrej Mikle, who has built our RPMs for a while, is no longer able to > do so. (He isn't using RPM distros any more

Re: [tor-dev] We need a new RPM maintainer

2016-06-16 Thread nusenu
What is the Tor Project's motivation for providing RPMs (instead of relying on the RPM distro maintainer)? I think jamie is doing a great job at maintaining Fedora's and EPEL RPMs. I switched to his RPMs for their systemd and multi-instance support. The only thing you don't get from Fedora/EPEL i

[tor-dev] We need a new RPM maintainer

2016-06-16 Thread Nick Mathewson
Hi, all! Ondrej Mikle, who has built our RPMs for a while, is no longer able to do so. (He isn't using RPM distros any more, doesn't have as much free time, and etc.) First: Thanks, Ondrej, for all your hard work! Here's the instructions he sent on how to do it (quoted with permission): {{{ Basi