Re: DEB_VENDOR and forks
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Of course an Ubuntu derivative could be surprised if they get
> a Debian-variant of a package instead of an Ubuntu-variant…
Yes, that's exactly the issue I'm raising
> I see how we can solve it (add new fields in /etc/dpkg/origins/* to
> describe parent relationship, and create a new tool to query those
> meta-information) but I wonder what impact you expect it would have
> on the decision of exporting DEB_VENDOR in the build environment.
Well I just want this issue to be considered near the initial
introduction of DEB_VENDOR.
> Would you like a DEB_VENDORS="Gobuntu Ubuntu Debian" or similar
> so that no external tool is required ?
>
> ifneq (,$(filter Ubuntu,$(DEB_VENDORS)))
> # Ubuntu or derivative
> endif
That would be a possible implementation which I wouldn't mind using;
albeit the name of the field isn't too obvious but I don't have any
good idea. I think I'd be fine with either an external tool or
environment vars, but in any case the handling of specific vendor and
inherited vendors should be similar IMO.
Thanks!
--
Loïc Minier
Reply to: