Am Dienstag, 11. November 2003, 07:15:42 Uhr MET, schrieb Keld Jřrn Simonsen:
> One thing I would like to see for MDK 10:
> That RedHat, Fedora, SuSE and other rpm packages be
> installabla on MDK systems.
> I dont know what analyses is needed to do that, but it
> is probably something with compatibility libraries.
> Or maybe it is something to do about having packages follow LSB.
Hi,
it's not as easy as you think. All the distributions have different
libraries, different paths, differents configuration systems, package
names, menu systems, ... I have some experience in supporting packages
for several versions of Mandrake which is hard enough, as rpm macros
change and there are bugs you have to work around and so on.
There's the jpackage.org project which produces Java packages for Red
Hat and Mandrake. They have to do lots of voodoo to make this work,
basically you have to use only the common feature subset of both
distributions or emulate the missing stuff, like the
update-alternatives system. They have only 2 distributions and most of
their stuff is architecture-independant, go figure.
If you want packages to be compatible between more than one
distribution you have to sacrifice features, but where's the benefit?
There's almost everything available for Mandrake, if something's
missing, I or somebody else from this list will add it, unless it's
some closed source commercial stuff you shouldn't use anyway.
CU, Götz
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the
homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of
totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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