Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>> Maybe, but 3.x is wildly different from 5.x, and it needs to run across
>> all the fast-changing fedora versions too. My question is whether
>> it's possible to package something like this such that yum would do the
>> right thing regardless of the platform.
>
> They could just put a spec file into the tar ball - which would help
> people who want to build their own packages. Ah well, I'm gracious today
> - they can add a debian/ directory also.
I tend to look at this from the other direction. Why should someone who
wants to give away an application be forced to build a zillion
variations just because the distributions can't come up with a single
way for a program to work? There has to be a better way to make
something unix-like... Note that even when a vendor really goes out of
their way to build RPM's (like vmware, sun java, etc.), RH manages to
disagree with where things should land and break them. Why shouldn't
any package that ever worked continue to do so? Solaris seems to make
this claim...
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Les Mikesell
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