I have been researching the current state and possible solutions to the problem of third-party packaging on Linux. What I mean by third-party packages, is packages that are not supplied by the distro and are designed to work on multiple distros. At the present moment, it seems that there is no equally palatable solution to distros, vendors, and users. I have started a discussion on the lsb-discuss mailing list of possible solutions to the problem, as well as a discussion of the current state of affairs. If you are interested in joining this discussion, please join the conversation there. Additionally, there will be an FSG packaging summit in Berlin on Dec 5 where future directions for third-party packaging ideas are discussed.
The original post to lsb-discuss can be found here: http://lists.freestandards.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2006-October/003085 .html -- Michael Leibowitz Software Engineer, Channel Platform Solutions Group Intel Corporation michael.leibowitz at intel.com +1 503 264 7621 ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
