Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package
On Feb 19, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
> At 2002/2/18 18:50-0600 Chris Lawrence writes:
> >
> > There may be other deviations from the spec; they are bugs and should
> > be reported as such. (The aforementioned deviations are bugs, but
> > probably "wontfix" for woody, or are bugs in the spec.)
>
> If you do find bugs please report them as development of the
> specification is ongoing.
Will do. The uid/gid 1 issue is definitely an issue; Debian probably
can't make that change, and I suspect many other LSB implementations
would trip over it too if they have any POSIX already.
> > Per the spec, LSB applications may be installed on Debian using:
> >
> > alien -i YOUR_APPLICATION_HERE.lsb
>
> I'm pretty sure that the use of .lsb as the suffix for LSB compliant
> packages did not make it into the 1.1 specification.
Right; I'll fix that.
> > Note: I can't actually find any LSB packages that test whether the
> > implementation works right or not. I downloaded the lsb-apache rpm
>
> For the testing of distributions there is also a set of test suites
> available. The test suites will be used as part of the compliance
> testing of distributions.
>
> ftp://ftp.freestandards.org/pub/lsb/test_suites/beta/binary/distribution
>
> Note: The packages is the beta directory are currently a bit better
> than those in the released directory.
I'll take a look at this one.
> > (Alien chokes on their rsync:
> > Unpacking of `rsync-2.4.6-1.i386.rpm' failed at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 140.
>
> IIRC that used to work with earlier versions of alien. Its a very
> simple package.
joeyh says the archive might be truncated... as it is, it's 1/3 the
size of the source, which may be off a tad. (See #134656)
Chris
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