.rpm? .lsb??
I find it odd that the lsb spec includes something which I thought was
declared explicitly outside its scope: packaging.
I thought the idea was that distributions would provide their own value
add, that LSB was supposed to document the common facilities which
should be present in a linux system -- primarily so that commercial
vendors could deploy linux software for a variety of distributions.
Proposal: specify that an lsb system be able to install a .tgz file
and register it in its package database. The package represented by
the .tgz file should not install if the file provides a file which is
already present on the system. The package name under which the contents
are registered should be some prefix of the .tgz file name.
[Note that gnu tar deals with long file names in an acceptable fashion.]
--
Raul
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