Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread devzero2000
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Denis Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 13:01 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Denis Washington wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 12:27 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Denis Washington

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread devzero2000
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:35 PM, devzero2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Denis Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 13:01 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Denis Washington wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 12:27

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 21, 2008, at 1:52 PM, devzero2000 wrote: (aside) It is time for LSB RPM SPEC to move to RPM4 packaging format Indeed. That is the raison d'etre for [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I have not pursued because of zero (yes zero!) interest from vendor's or LSB. Not my problem. I will do a IETF

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread devzero2000
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 1:52 PM, devzero2000 wrote: (aside) It is time for LSB RPM SPEC to move to RPM4 packaging format Indeed. That is the raison d'etre for [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I have not pursued because of zero (yes

Re: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread devzero2000
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 21, 2008, at 2:45 PM, devzero2000 wrote: Ok. I already know this and also agreed on the motivation. In the meantime could be useful to have more docu on the rpm4 packaging format, almost for the tags. There is

RE: LSB Package API

2008-06-21 Thread Wichmann, Mats D
LSB has chosen to leave upgrade UNSPECIFIED, and has also chose in the Berlin API to ignore the fact that both dpkg/rpm versions are a triple of Epoch/Version/Release. Pretending that a version string can be anything, opaquely handled, including E:V-R, or something else, misses the issue