[maemo-developers] Making extras upload on osx (missing dput and debsign binaries for osx)

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On 8/23/07, Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 16:54 +0300, ext Urho Konttori wrote:
> > Hi everybody.
> >
> > I'm having a slight problem of making upload to the extras repo.
> > Steps 6,7,8 require dput and debsign, but I haven't found them for
> > osx. Fink does not seem to have them and google doesn't seem to help
> > me enough in locating them. Does anybody know where to get those?
> >
>
> You can use debsign from scratchbox and scp instead of dput.
> I'm using this on my RedHat box for more than year already.
>
> You can look here for more detailed info:
> http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/2006-September/002080.html
This is great stuff , I have been "complaining" about the problem
of not being able to upload package from non debian base distro's.

perhaps something we can add to the wiki here?
http://maemo.org/community/wiki/ExtrasRepository

greetings