[Gambas-user] Feature request

[willy at ...3474...]

On 2015-06-19 02:12, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 18/06/2015 23:05, willy at ...3474... a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have been looking at the Gambas IDE package code (in
>> app/.src/gambas3/.src/packager folder)
>> In the package module I see that packages for debain/ubuntu are made
>> with:
>> dpkg-buildpackage -d -rfakeroot
>> 
>> Request 1:
>> Could a simple -k<keyid> option be added to 'dpkg-buildpackage -d
>> -rfakeroot' for debian/ubuntu, so packages can be signed.
>> This could be set as a preference in IDE where you could select 
>> 'package
>> with key' and enter the key in a field and select the distro the key 
>> has
>> to be used for when signing.
>> 
>> Maybe it should be possible to have multople seperate key like one for
>> Debian and one for Ubuntu to sign with (just thinking out loud)
> 
> Is the signature something associated with the user, i.e. the same
> signature will theoritically be used for all projects for the same 
> system?
> 
> Note that packager can only make a difference between the provided
> distributions.
> 
>> 
>> I have no idea how signing rpm packages works, but I guess it might be
>> useful there as well.
> 
> This is needed, I should implement signing for all packages: deb, rmp,
> but also ArchLinux and Slackware! Not just for Debian...

Here is some info on signing rpm packages:
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-pgp-signing-packages.html
Here some on signing Arch packages:
http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-1-makepkg-and-repo-add/

> 
>> 
>> Request 2:
>> I have noticed that some of the own application when packaged on i386
>> system (architecture for package by IDE is set to all) and installed 
>> on
>> an armhf, they do not alway run, but crash without any GUI to be seen.
>> If I next package that application on armhf (again as an all package)
>> and install it on armhf it does run!!
> 
> This is a bug, as the Gambas executable are (or should be)
> architecture-independant. Can you provide me the i386 and the armhf
> packages?
> 
> Thanks.