RE: LSB packages
What is missing is a definition of "LSB-Compliant package" ... we have a
definition of "LSB-Compliant Application", but in my mind a package is more
than an application (although the terms seem to be a little mixed up,
suggesting that maybe I'm wrong ...)
If we had a good definition, then it would be a lot clearer how to interpret
the package naming section. How about this:
LSB-Compliant Package
A collection of one or more LSB-Compliant applications, together
with necessary supporting files, packaged as described in this document.
On the other hand, if we want to remove the distinction between a "package"
and an "application", then lets just be consistent and use the same term
everywhere.
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Nick Stoughtonj
USENIX Standards Liaison
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-----Original Message-----
From: aj@suse.de [mailto:aj@suse.de]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:06 AM
To: Aleksei Rovensky
Cc: gk4@us.ibm.com; lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org
Subject: Re: LSB packages
Aleksei Rovensky <ar@ares.sot.com> writes:
>> My understanding is that there would be:
>> A package "lsb-sun-staroffice-5.2.i386.rpm" with the registry name
>> "sun-staroffice-5.2" installed in /opt/sun/staroffice, which is not to be
>> confused with "lsb-openoffice-6.3.2.i386.rpm" that is installed in
>> /opt/openoffice. The end-user gets to pick which to use, but it does
not
>> impact the system.
>> George Kraft IV
>> gk4@austin.ibm.com
>> IBM Linux Technology Center
>> FSG's Linux Standard Base
> How about effect to packages in distribution? I mean
> not "external" packages like staroffice? I mean
> will all packages in distros (if they are LSB compatible) now have
> that "lsb-" extension?
No. Packages coming with a distribution need not be LSB compliant for
an LSB compliant system. Some packages will certainly have an "lsb-"
extension but those are required by LSB, e.g. to provide the LSB
environment.
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger
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