Re: Packaging and installation
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:25:23PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
> If there is a clearly superier packaging system then the LSB should
> support that and that alone, if there are number of packaging systems
> that each have different flaws and benefits then the LSB should
> recognise all these different packaging systems as having a valid
> purpose, but recognise that they are not ideal.
This has been discussed before (many times). A couple of things to
note (and hopefully avoid rehashing old stuff)
- The LSB currently defines a package format, _not_ a packaging
system. Eg the RPM format, not the rpm program, or backend database etc.
- Non RPM based distributions will be able to be LSB compliant without
having an rpm database (eg using alien on deb based systems). A subset
of RPM functionality has been selected to allow for this to work
properly.
- No one will be required to change the format they use
to package their applications. RPM is recommended, but
not required.
- Work is in progress regarding an improved packaging format.
There is an faq which discusses these and other topics at:
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/faq.html
Chris.
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