On Mer 27 avril 2005 16:08, Mathias Bauer a �crit :
> M. Fioretti wrote:
>
>> Nobody (not me anyway) asked to use _one_ form of package. What is
>> important is make sure that everything is always made available online
>> in "source" form, that the distributors can pick and package their way
>> for automatic installation and upgrade. *Without* extra work like
>> dissecting a self-installing .sxw file to get the macro it wants to
>> install by itself.
>
> Nobody should use sxw files for deployment. We use *UNO packages*.
>
> Their are zip files.

Can we hope to get too ? I know from experience Linux zip support is not
on the level of the tar one (see also my naming remarks in previous
messages)

> They are installed using a command line tool that
> is part of the office installation. This tool can be executed with user
> or administrator (root) permissions and can deploy on a per user or on a
> system wide base. It will not touch any files or settings in the office
> installation or the user directory (and of course not anything else in
> your system), it will only add some files in a defined place, a
> subfolder of the "uno_packages" folder in either the "share" or the
> "user" directory.

Great. In that case the only thing we need to do rpm packaging is a way to
specify an installation prefix (basically you tell your utility to install
for the local OO.o installation, prepending a specific root. rpm then
compresses the contents of this root, checksums and signs it. rpm
invocation on the result unpacks this root contents on / on as many
systems as you want.) This is a gross oversimplification, but gives you an
idea of how rpm works

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot


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