Dear Community, :) Perhaps you have noticed or you haven't, but last week Novell R&D had an event called hackweek, where we were free to sidestep our normal jobs and work on something we always wanted to try without having an urgent need to as Novell.
So being experienced with both Debian's and SUSE's build tools, Richard Günther and me decided just to try compiling Debian sources using SUSE's tools and see what problems we face. It turned out, most problems we were facing could be easily solved or worked around (e.g. debian has a completely different concept of lib64, so we had to package debian's amd64 libs under */lib - so it's impossible to have a -32libs version of ithem. But that doesn't really matter for the kind of packages we're aiming for). Now the problem is a problem of success: I have not really an idea what to do with the huge pool of debian packages (substract those that provide files we already have - those are failing and won't be in that pool). The original idea was to only distribute packages that look worth it, but with > 10000 packages, picking those is a job hard enough and we could use help with it. The current list of selected packages is under http://software.opensuse.org/download/Ports:/DebianBased/ - if someone has an idea how to pick more or how to group them, I'm glad to hear it. Greetings, Stephan -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
