[lsb-discuss] A Modest Proposal for Solving the Packaging Problem

Wichmann, Mats D mats.d.wichmann at intel.com
Sun Apr 24 06:56:54 PDT 2011


lsb-discuss-bounces at lists.linux-foundation.org wrote:
>>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Wichmann, Mats D
> <mats.d.wichmann at intel.com<mailto:mats.d.wichmann at intel.com>> wrote:
>>> Dan, perhaps you should become an LSB contributor more
>>> directly, you seem to have thought of many of the tricks
>>> that the project did, always useful to have people who are
>>> on the same wavelength :)
>> 
>> I'm quite surprised that was already in there. When I read
> the spec (a little too fast), all I saw was
>> "RPM version X, or certain other compatible options". If my
> suggestions have been taken already,
>> then I guess I don't quite see what the problem is with .deb
>> conversions. 
> 
> The main remaining issue with recent versions of .deb
> conversion for us is the lack of support for honouring a
> dependency on LSB, such as "lsb >= 4.0". I suspect that's not
> an easy thing to solve though, since it would require
> integration with the package manager and not just an isolated change
> to alien.

I know Jeff is doing something "funky" with the deb packages we
create for LSB (converting with alien).  Maybe he'll describe
it, I have the impression it involved doing part of the conversion,
fixing something up, and then finishing.

 


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