Packaging

For those interested in packaging RIPE Atlas Tools for their favourite distro, this section is for you.

Currently Supported

  • OpenBSD
  • FreeBSD
  • Gentoo
  • Debian
  • Ubuntu

In Progress

  • Fedora: Jan Včelák is currently building the binary packages in COPR (which will take some time as there is a lot of other packages in the queue)

Additional Distributions

Is your distribution not listed? If you’d like to build a package for another distro or even if you’re just someone who knows someone who can help us package and distribute this, please get in touch.

Further Information

User Agent

When packaging, it’s good practise to manually set the user agent used within the toolkit so that we can get a rough idea of which distros are using this software. This is easily done by writing an arbitrary string to <root>/ripe/atlas/tools/user-agent. Something like this is recommended::

RIPE Atlas Tools (Magellan) [FreeBSD 10.2] 1.2

The only limitations to this file are that it should:

  • Only have one line in it (all other will be ignored)
  • That line should have a maximum of 128 characters in it