On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 08:57:49PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> I order to simplify for package authors/maintainers and to reduce
> duplication, distribute the source file packages in .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2)
> format. This avoids the need to provide both .tar.gz, .src.rpm and
> debian source files.
> Included in these tarballs add .spec and .dsc files together with
> the original .tar.gz package and .diff.gz files. Then everybody
> interested can build source/binary files for their own preferred
> distribution using the same source files!!
I second this, but I wonder if the tar'd distribution should consist out
of a "wrapper" tar, including everything just like a src.rpm does
nowadays, or if
> Also the GNU packages could contain .deb and .spec files, as is
> already the case (.spec-files) for gnome packages.
>
> Advantages
> ==========
> ++ Enables convergence towards Linux Standard Base (LSB)
> ++ Simplifies a lot for package maintainers, distribution specific
> files, .spec, .dsc etc could be supplied by the different vendors.
> ++ Faster feedback to package authors for patches incorporated into
> the main distribution.
> ++ Reduces the risk for patch divergence. (A lot of
> distribution-spcific patches)
> + Useful for all .rpm-based systems, rpm -t? is already there.
> + Useful for all .deb-based systems, with minor changes in relevant tools.
> + Useful for .tar.gz-based systems, no changes necessary.
> + ...
>
> Drawbacks
> =========
> - No easy way to see if .spec and .dsc files are included in the
> .tar.gz package (except using tar, but that requires a download)
> - Distribution profiling more difficult :-(
> - Package naming has to be agreed upon!!
> - ...
>
> Another issue is to merge the binary file formats .deb and .rpm :-(
>
> This mail is sent to the lists I'm subscribing to. I'm currently
> running Rawhide-19991117, Redhat 6.1, Debian 2.1, Suse 6.2 and
> Mandrake 6.1 on different computers and disks, and would really
> appreciate a common format at least for source packages. Most often I
> recompile the sources myself.
>
> Please feel free to forward this mail to other interested parties not
> reached by the list here. I would like to start the dicussion on this
> subject. No flame wars please!
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> To unsubscribe:
> mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
--
---Ingo Luetkebohle / 21st Century Digital Boy
Confident, cocky, lazy, dead.
[J. Dread, Otherland]
--
To unsubscribe:
mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
