Re: Starting packaging VistA (Re: LSM in Geneva)
Hi Nancy,
thanks for your hint.
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 08:54:34AM -0400, Nancy E. Anthracite, MD wrote:
> There is a derivative of WorldVistA EHR that has been packaged already but the
> caveat is that you can package it but you can't update it using the usual
> mechanism so Ignacio Valdez, who did the packaging, makes sure that the
> instance won't be deleted and overwritten by a new one unless someone goes to
> considerable effort to make that happen.
>
> Astronaut is the version that does this. This is not a version that
> WorldVistA supports, not because of the packaging but because of other issues.
> That said, we will probably have Ignacio package the official WorldVistA EHR
> for us in the near future. He has both packages for Debian and Red Hat.
If you do some giggling in the web archive of this mailing list this
will uncover some past discussions with Ignacio Valdez. As far as I
remember the problem of his Debian packages was, that these are not
built using the required way to use a Debian source package and create
the binary packages using the usual packaging tools. So these are not
distributable by Debian and as far as I remember Ignacio did not
considered changing the way he was building the packages. In other
words this means that the result of his work might worth looking at but
we need to do things from scratch anyway.
I'd perfectly welcome if Ignacio would join our policy compliant
packaging effort.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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