Re: lsb-apache rpms
On Tue, Dec 18, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:00:57AM +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 18, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:39:10AM +0000, M. Drew Streib wrote:
> > > > Anyway, I've got lsb-apache rpms and srpms at:
> > > > ftp://ftp.freestandards.org/pub/lsb/app-battery/apache/
> > > mv lsb-apache-1.3.22-1.i386.rpm lsb-apache_1.3.22-1_i386.lsb # ?
> > Bad idea. lsb-apache_1.3.22-1_i386.lsb will break a lot of software
> > for maintaining RPM packages.
>
> Does that really matter? These are LSB packages that just happen to share
> the RPM format, aren't they?
Yes, and I think a user should be able to install them with the default
tools of the distribution. Why making things more complicated than
necessary?
> Making it possible for users to tell at a glance whether they've
> got a real LSB package, or something specific to one of the the RPM
> distributions seems to me a much more useful feature than working with
> every J. Random RPM tool out there.
Wasn't there a proposal to code the lsb into the version number or
package name? I think this is much more usefull, the user sees, it
is a lsb package, and can install it with the tools he like.
Thorsten
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