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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Debian packages for testing:  Xenomai 2.6.3,
 Linux 3.8.13, x86 and Beaglebone
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To: John Morris <john@zultron.com>, xenomai@xenomai.org

On 07/18/2014 09:48 PM, John Morris wrote:
> On 07/18/2014 02:26 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>> On 07/18/2014 08:07 PM, John Morris wrote:
>>> I've built new Xenomai kernel packages for the Machinekit project.  As
>>> the subject says, they're based on Xenomai 2.6.3 and Linux 3.8.13 and
>>> run on the x86 architectures (mostly vanilla with the Debian config) and
>>> Beaglebone (Robert C Nelson's patches and config).
>>>
>>> They are based on the upstream Debian packaging, completely different
>>> from my previous packages, which were based on the awful make-kpkg
>>> stuff.  These promise to be much more maintainable.
>>>
>>> RTAI kernels are also included in the new packaging.
>>>
>>> To install:
>>>
>>> # configure the Debian archive
>>> sudo sh -c \
>>>       "sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net \
>>>           --recv-key 73571BB9; \
>>>       echo 'deb http://deb.dovetail-automata.com wheezy main' > \
>>>           /etc/apt/sources.list.d/machinekit.list"
>>
>> If you are interested, you can make a debian package which adds the key
>> to the keyring. See:
>> http://www.xenomai.org/debian/pool/main/x/xenomai-keyring/
> 
> Hi Gilles,
> 
> I actually did this last time around, and even copied your code.  What's 
> the advantage of putting the key in a package over directly importing 
> the key with the above 'apt-key' command?

If a user wants to remove a key, he simply removes the package instead
of having to know the apt-key command (which most user never even use,
as the debian project keys are installed with such a package).

-- 
                                                                Gilles.