using other distro's repos?

[Leo Cacciari]

Il giorno gio, 10/01/2008 alle 13.06 -0500, anthony baldwin ha scritto:
> >   snip
> I'm continually disappointed by the lack of stuff in the PCLOS repos 
> that we have in Ubuntu.
> I wondered if I could grab such stuff from other rpm places, like 
> fedora, mandriva, etc.
> Ubuntu has almost every thing I need.
> 
> I know, I could hunt down rpms on line and install by hand...but, 
> where's the fun in that?
> 
> Incidentally, I did request one pkg to be added to Ubuntu, just recently 
> (which, oddly PCLOS does have).
> How would I go about "doing the packaging myself", as someone suggested?
> (I have the package on my system, but the world would be groOvier if it 
> was in repo and, thus, maintained current
> with apt).  It's written in java, if that makes a difference.
> I suppose have to make the jar into a deb or something?
> (Okay, okay...I'll get googling....suggestion are appreciated all the 
> same...)
No googling needed :) Simply go to wiki.ubuntu.com, wisdom is there :)
You may start from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide to understand
how do it yourself.

Have fun :)

-- 
Leo 'TheHobbit' Cacciari

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