On 08/06/2011 03:09 PM, Matt Taggart wrote:
info and see if I can't make some kind of sense of them for Debian, they
seem to have an rpm bias to me. (I realize rpm is required for LSB
compliance, but still.)
All that's required for LSB runtime compliance is the ability to install
"LSB packages" which use the rpm format, so using alien is just fine.
Nothing requires the system itself to use rpm packages (or any packaging at
all).
But if the LSB test suite packages can't be installed then something is
broken with the LSB test packages.
They should work just fine, the LSB team continue to test on a deb-based
system regularly (yes, it's Ubuntu...sorry...). Testing these days is
nomrally driven by a test manager from the lsb-dist-checker package
(this is a big part of the work that was done by ISPRAS, mentioned in a
different message in this thread), which manages what packages need to
be installed and handles the conversion of packages if it's needed;
however, LSB continues to maintain a repository of deb packages to allow
installation by normal apt-get means as well:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lsb.list
deb http://ftp.linuxfoundation.org/pub/lsb/repositories/debian lsb-4.1 main
any questions, some of the LSB folk are still listening here, and for
quick questions one can hop onto irc.linuxfoundation.org #lsb
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