[tor-talk] Tor Browser repository for Fedora 17 and 18

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Jamie Nguyen:
> Hi, I'm the maintainer for Tor package on Fedora EPEL.
> 
> I've set-up a (GPG signed) repository for Fedora 17 and 18 with Tor
> Browser RPM packages. It optionally includes SELinux protection for the
> Tor Browser. (Tor client/server already has SELinux protection on Fedora.)
> 
> More info here:
> https://jamielinux.com/articles/2013/01/tor-and-tor-browser-repository-on-fedora/
> 
> 

Nice!

How could you create it?

Please share you knowledge if that could ease the process of creating .debs.

>From another thread....

Re: [tor-talk] TBB as a deb (was Re: Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha is out)

Roger Dingledine:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 07:28:34PM -0500, Micah Lee wrote:
>> Are there plans to release the Tor Browser Bundle as a package in Tor's
>> official repos, e.g. http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/?
>>
>> This would make keeping an up-to-date TBB much more convenient.
>
> It sure would make things more convenient, I agree.
>
> See for example
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3994
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5236
>
> Basically there are a whole pile of logistical issues, stemming mainly
> from the (quite reasonable) policies around how debs are allowed to
> interact with each other.
>
> So, it's something that a lot of smart Debian people have thought about,
> and no clean-enough answer has emerged yet.
>
> It is deeply unsatisfying to me that Linux, the platform most of our
> developers use, is the one with the least user-friendly Tor package
> support. But it will take a lot of juggling and coordination to produce
> a solution that all sides find ok.
>
> --Roger