On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:39:42 +0000, Renk wrote in message <e495a106ff5f31448739e79d34138c191e169...@mbs1.ad.jyu.fi>:
> > No it doesn't. There's nothing preventing us from providing > > packages for older distribution versions. > > This sounds very neat, and if this works in practice, then I take my > comment back - being able to get an rpm for any major Linux > distribution would be equivalent to the Windows installer in terms of > usability. ..the best way to get there, is build upon scripts like: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Scripted_Compilation_on_Linux_Debian/Ubuntu and http://geoffair.net/fg/ ... ...like http://wiki.flightgear.org/CentOS does, and build deb, rpm etc distro packages, rather than just build binaries out of the sources. ..in the Debian, Ubuntu etc world, .deb packages can be built like: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-checkinstall-build-packages-source or http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/build.en.html from http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html ..for rpm, I recommend reading the output of 'man rpmbuild'. .._sometimes_, deb, rpm etc packages can be converted to other distro packaging formats with /usr/bin/alien, details in 'man alien', this approach may fail on e.g. Ubuntu developers disagreeing with Debian .deb packaging policy, or a rpm database not seeing conflicts coming with a .deb binary, checkinstall may help you solve those conflicts. ..some guys are just plain lucky, e.g. http://wiki.flightgear.org/Building_Flightgear_-_Gentoo ..these build scripts can also be packaged as e.g. deb, rpm etc "meta-packages" that can be used to e.g. set up a build server. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
