[Freedombox-discuss] Simple way to help out here and now very concretely

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 3 August 2011 11:49, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> Hi Melvin (and others),
>
> On 11-08-03 at 01:41am, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>> On 26 July 2011 11:06, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> > On 11-07-25 at 09:01pm, Craig Barnes wrote:
>> >> On 24 July 2011 23:54, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> >> > One quite valuable thing you can do is to propose concrete Debian
>> >> > packages + any needed configfile customizations.  This does not
>> >> > need a plug device, just any computer running Debian Linux.
>> >> >
>> >> > More info here (and other posts in same thread):
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2010-October/000164.html
>
> [snip]
>
>> > As an example of Jabber service + web-based Jabber client:
>> >
>> > Packages: prosody jwchat apache2-mpm-worker
>>
>> This is great!
>>
>> When I installed jwchat I think ejabbered got packaged.
>>
>> Which is the actual XMPP server prosody or ejabberd?
>>
>> I'm still playing around with this, but excellent idea!
>
> If by "actual" you mean what is the daemon I intended for above
> composition then (obviously) it is the one that I mention explicitly:
> prosody.
>
> If you packages one-by-one then APT may resolve dependencies using
> alternatives than those listed above and you need to then manually
> remove those again.  Similarly if you install on top of an existing rich
> Debian installation then some dependencies might already be satisfied by
> alternatives and again you may need to remove those explicitly to reach
> a sensible result.
>
> If by "actual" you try interpret what has been "decided" as most proper
> daemon to use for FreedomBox, it makes little sense at the current
> stage: We need more experimentation about combination of packages and
> configs and use cases.  We need *YOU* to help with that ;-)

Ah, you're right.  I did install one by one out of curiosity.

Incidentally, I normally also run openfire on my local box and on an
always on cloud.

Very happy to help test jwchat with anyone that gets this working.  :)

>
>
>> > I hope later today to have upgraded [boxer] to actually work, and
>> > make use of config snippets.
>
> [snip]
>
>> > [boxer]: http://git.emdebian.org/?p=upstream/boxer.git;a=blob;f=README
>
> Oh, well - above was way too optimistic.  I am still fighting with Boxer
> and will post here on the list when it works as intended.
>
> Boxer being broken should however *not* stop anyone from helping out:
> Please do share package selections and config snippets, similar to the
> example described earlier in this thread!
>
>
>  - Jonas
>
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