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["cyberdork33" <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>]

The ppa was originally created to hold packages for users to get the fixes they needed to run on macs that were not available in the normal repos. The support community could point those trying to run ubuntu on their mac to one catch all location. It was intended to get fixes for things into the normal repos eventually so they would not have to rely on the ppa. If the hfs-bless utility has patches that some users might need to get things working because that is not in the normal repos, then the mactel support ppa is a good spot for them, but you should probably lobby to get the packages into the standard repos too. 

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Ricky

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Jason Heeris <jason.heeris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> So the other alternative, if people aren't that enthused about a group PPA,
> is that I just create my own PPA with the few packages that I can test out.
> I'm happy to do that as long as you are.
> Cheers,
> Jason
> On 15 September 2013 21:58, cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Your contributions are always welcome.
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Jason Heeris <jason.heeris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Okay, I somehow hit GMail's combination for sending that before I had
>> finished it. That bodes well. Here's the rest of it...
>>
>> 1. The macfanctld utility had a couple of useful pull requests on Github,
>> and the packaging needed a bit of updating. My efforts are here:
>>
>> https://github.com/detly/macfanctld
>>
>> I've taken advantage of Debian's git-buildpackage workflow, and it's
>> pretty trivial to update and upload new PPA packages for any Ubuntu distro.
>>
>> 2. The hfs-bless utility was essential for getting the Mac Mini's boot
>> firmware to boot Ubuntu after removing Mac OSX. I packaged that up too:
>>
>> https://github.com/detly/mactel-boot
>>
>> If you're interested, I'll happily take responsibility for maintaining the
>> packaging and PPA uploads; although I'd rather not take *sole*
>> responsibility for the actual software itself, since I can't test it too
>> thoroughly.
>>
>> Let me know.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason Heeris
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