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Fixing Packaging in Linux #1

I really, really, really want feedback on this:
Over the past few months, I’ve really gotten into packaging on Fedora and Ubuntu. I’m not an expert, but I can genuinely say our packaging situation is crap. We are so close. And yet we ended up with two major implementations, that are almost the same. There is [...]

New Shrip Package

I made a new Shrip package. This is for the new 0.5 release.
http://workhorsy.org/junk/shrip_0.5.0-1_i386.deb
Source packages:
http://workhorsy.org/junk/shrip_0.5.0-1.diff.gz
http://workhorsy.org/junk/shrip_0.5.0-1.dsc
http://workhorsy.org/junk/shrip_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz
Updated:
Here is how to use shrip:
For example to encode episode 1 of Jericho from a DVD ISO to a matroska container with h.264 video and aac audio at 720×480, you would do this:

shrip encode –device=/media/archive2/JERICHO_S1_AC_D1.iso –title=3 –chapters=1-9 –audio=1 –scale=720:480 –crop=0:0:720:480 –container=mkv –video-codec=x264 [...]

Adventures in Ubuntu packaging

Lately I’ve been researching how to create Ubuntu packages. For those that don’t know, packages are the Linux way of installing and managing software. Think Windows Update, but for all software on your computer. There are a few differences though: Each package will specify what versions of other packages it requires. This makes it trivial [...]