What exactly are you having problems with? I maintain the AUR package, and I would like to fix it if there is a problem. What is the “crucial setup information” that is hidden? The AUR package should work out of the box by just launching `sudo systemctl start gnunet`.
--madmurphy
Il giorno giovedì 3 marzo 2022, Fungilife can be eternal <fungilife@protonmail.com> ha scritto: >> Since GNUnet is currently an academic exercise, it should be removed >> from main distribution repositories. For example: Anyone thinking to >> try GNUnet on Debian-based machines would look in Synaptic and install >> GNUnet v0.10.1. Presumably that build-version worked when it was first >> included in the repositories, but now GNUnet is at v0.16.0 which is not >> backward compatible. > > In Arch, where anything alpha-beta ends up in AUR within minutes, you can > simply install gnunet git latest commit. And this is where the handbook > is wrong. It is hiding crucial setup information under "installation". > Someone who didn't go through the trouble of building the software manually > and used the package-manager, has it already installed, they will not go > back and read installation instructions. > > I am more in favor of rearranging and relabeling current documents, > at least addressing this discrepancy, rather than whoever made the AUR pkg > to remove it as misleading non-completely-functional software. > >> The low version number should warn users away, but GNUnet in the >> repositories is misleading given its low level of development. > > This is what I have installed at this moment: > % pacman -Qs gnunet > local/gnunet-git 0.16.0.alpha.6.r101.g7dbabde5e-1 > A framework for secure peer-to-peer networking > local/gnurl 7.72.0-01 > fork of libcurl, which is mostly for GNUnet > > while curl is up to 7.81.0 > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tirifto tirifto@posteo.cz >> To: help-gnunet@gnu.org >> Subject: Re: Determining whether gnunet is connected >> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 14:34:19 +0000 >> >> On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:28:22 +0000 >> Fungilife can be eternal fungilife@protonmail.com wrote: >> >> > Where does it say on the front page, or on the packages thrown out in >> > Arch's AUR and elsewhere, "alpha project not fully functional"?? >> > "we know ..." ..."Nobody is claiming otherwise" you may know, >> > someone in authority of the gnunet site should also tell the world. >> >> For what it’s worth, it is very clearly mentioned in the ‘Install’ page >> on the website, accessible either from the navigation bar’s >> ‘Documentation’ menu, or by scrolling down the home page and clicking >> ‘Get started’. I would assume that anyone stumbling upon the GNUnet >> website and wondering how they can get started wouldn’t miss it, but I >> may just as well be wrong. More prominent it could be, in any case. > > It is good to know, but see above on how someone would probably miss it, > whether it is GNUnet 0.01 from debian unstable or 0.16 from Obarun stable. > It is installed, bang, let's get to running it! How? > > >