Hello Pat, Pat Suwalski wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not certain what I'm meant to do, but I'm told that I should raise > this bug as a point over here: > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37506 > > I'm not sure what that means, but I'm bringing it to attention here. > > Essentially, RPM isn't the best way for OOo to be distributed. It's > actually quite sub-optimal.
Well, the Linux Standard Base requires _every_ LSB compliant distribution to be able to able to install RPMs. See http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_2.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/swinstall.html Originally the functionality of postinstall scripts was another point for choosing RPM as the default format, but nowadays these are only needed for the desktop integration stuff. On the other hand there are ways (and tools) to extract the data from RPMs, like rpm2cpio (as described in http://blog.vojta.name/archives/2005-03-03T09_37_58.html) or alien. Converting OOo RPMs to .deb format does work pretty well. However those tools require a working RPM installation as well. So, to help users of non-LSB compliant distributions, we could a) provide scripts and howto's for converting the RPMs to whatever format or b) switch to a tar.gz release and provide a spec file for those who want to install RPMs Since I can't tell what most of the OOo users want, it would probably need a public vote to find out. Regards, Oliver --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
