-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20-05-2005 22:03, Sergio Talens-Oliag wrote: > El Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:27:34PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard va escriure: > >>>>My idea is that the moment all parts of a CDD is part of Debian, the CDD >>>>has become irrelevant: The main Debian distribution is then able to do >>>>all of the CDD itself. >>> >>> Sure, but you need to provide your package selections and the >>> customizations >>> scripts, that's what I want to include on Debian, that is, one CDD equals >>> one deb. >> >>Debian packages are "source packages" used to generate software, and >>"binary packages" containing ready-to-use software. >> >>I see cddtk "CDD profile packages" like source packages. >> >>Binary packages fits fine in the Debian archive (as does udeb binary >>packages) but not show up using aptitude. > > > I believe we are almost saying the same, but maybe you miss my point about > the CDD binary package; for me it is like generating pdf and html versions > of a file from source when building a documentation package, the CDD source > package includes the CDD description, but the distributed .deb is parsed and > validated by the CDDTool and can be used to install, upgrade and remove a > CDD using a cddtk-runtime with minimal needs (shell scripts). > > The generation of the .deb is useful because it assures that the distributed > description has been parsed correctly and also because we reduce the needs > of the installation system (i.e., we avoid python or perl dependencies), > usually not so important, but useful for installation systems and for any > CDD that wants to have minimum requirements.
I think I got it now...! (I actually intended to say something completely different, but then I ended up arguing myself to death :-P ) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCkdXUn7DbMsAkQLgRAjDLAJ4mP2UF7p4yEVrcV7UrLSsCqLLjQQCfTEZD oBT76QhhjEwmS7wwNwKYzLw= =yPv3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
