On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 14:05:20 -0800 Svetoslav Trochev svetoslav.trochev@gmail.com wrote:
i have setup a flashrom poject at http://launchpad.net/flashrom which auto-imports the svn every 6 hours and a package archive at http://launchpad.net/~flashrom-developers/+archive/flashrom-daily where new binaries are generated once a day whenever the svn has changed.
I found about daily PPA about couple days ago here: http://flashrom.org/Downloads. And used it to collect data from several boards. Is there plan to update the wiki page with info about the new PPA?
jup, i have updated the wiki page before sending the "announce" mail. what information do you think is missing/should be added?
-- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
Ok. I was a bit confused as new person to the project. There are 4 links: (package overview) [1], (questions) [2], (bugreports) [3] Let say, I am using Ubuntu 10.04LTS and I want to download and install latest well tested (stable) version of flashrom. I tried the first link and there only can see version: 0.9.1+r946-1ubuntu1. Next two links didn't help at all. Finally I found the 0.9.5.1+r1508-1-20120303~lucid1 version in daily build PPA [4]. I don't know how the releases are handled, but my experience is that most of the daily PPAs brake without any notice. This made me quite uncomfortable to flash M/B using daily build version. I am sure that I sound quite stupid right now, but I hope that we can provide a bit more clear picture how the binaries for Ubuntu are maintained and what version should be used. I hope that this small improvement will lower the barrier for entrance of new people and help flashrom project as whole.
[1] http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashrom [2] http://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashrom/+questions?field.status... [3] http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashrom/+bugs?field.status:list=NE... [4] http://code.launchpad.net/~flashrom-developers/+archive/flashrom-daily