Re: LSB Spec 1.0 Criticism
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:18:25PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Applications should be provided in the RPM packaging format as defined in the
> > appendix of Maximum RPM, with some restrictions listed below. [1]
> >
> > and nowhere on that page does it say which version of maximum rpm the LSB
> > uses. it just linsk to a website with the book.
>
> If you look closer at the beginning of the LSB document you will
> find it lists version 3 of the RPM format. The fact that that is not
> repeased in that section is a bit confusing.
It turns out that saying "version 3 of the RPM format" wasn't
sufficient, since Red Had has made many (not necessarily forwards or
backwards compatible changes) to "version 3 of the RPM format".
That's why chapter 13 was chagned to point at the Maximum RPM book.
As far as it changing, Maximum RPM has only been published once, so
there's only one version of the book: ISBN #1-888172-78-9, published
in 1997. It's an omission that the bibliographic information for
Maximum RPM wasn't included in the "Related Standards" section of the
Introduction.
- Ted
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