On Saturday 11 August 2007 18:00:24 Andrés G. Aragoneses [ knocte ] wrote: > Regarding the ABOUT section of the PLF webpage, I have noticed that PLF > was though as a multi-distro packaging project, but in the end it's > mainly targeted to Mandriva, am I right? > > What I am thinking is, wouldn't be more useful to use new OpenSUSE > BuildService to target n-distro's? It's a more comfortable way of > maintaining packages for many distributions, and AFAIK you could use > their hosting resources for the packages (having then, a free mirror > farm for you to be used).
Having a build host is only one issue. Having packages that build (without --nodeps, etc.) and work correctly (dependencies on the resulting packages, correct integration with the rest of the system) is a bit more complex. At least the following issues would need to be resolved: -consistent -devel provides across distributions -consistent macros for various packaging related tasks (e.g. SuSE does translaction of menu entries at build time, Mandriva used to do it at package installation IIRC, macros for adding users etc.) -availability of macros used for conditional build items (e.g. an equivalent of %mdkversion) I personally would like to see some of these issues resolved (as I have packages I maintain to build across Mandriva and RHEL at present, and in the past I have had packages to build across Mandriva, OpenSUSE, SLD9 etc.). However, at present I am unsure what the best forum is to discuss them (and I haven't had much time to get around to it). However, I have macro definitions that more-or-less allow rebuilding of Mandriva SRPMs on Fedora/RHEL (however the buildrequires issue still remains ...). See macros.mdk4rh (I should update it again for some small fixes) at http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Projects/BackPorts The selection of one of the 3 available build daemons of similar design (Mandriva's iurt, OpenSUSE's build service, Fedora's koji) is the easiest issue to resolve (IMHO). Regards, Buchan _______________________________________________ PLF-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
