Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anybody already noted this here?
[ Cut - Posting about Yggdrasil packages - RPM/deb/slackware/yggdrasil from common source ] Looks interesting! I wonder if they are proposing a new source packaging format - or if they are building all the binary packages from an unpacked tree. Judging by the contents of their build.log and install.log files, it seems they just have one huge FreeBSD-style "make world" happening. I looked at one of the SRPMs, and saw no Debian stuff. I don't think they have a source packaging format. Too bad. But they must have all the source in place to do multiple binary packages... they just haven't put it up yet. I'd like to see a common source packaging format that could be used to generate any type of binary package. I'd advocate using such a source format for Debian - because then we could help organize people who want to do 'contrib' packages for other distributions - and as a spin-off, reduce some of the duplicated work in the free software community. It would also be an excellent step towards a unified binary packaging format. Whether or not we want to deal with 'outsiders' is another matter altogether. We might get distracted somewhat from our Debian integration work if we are trying to produce portable packages. Also, I'm not sure if our one maintainer per source package system is flexible enough to deal with supporting multiple architectures, languages, and multiple distributions too. I don't think it would be too much work rigging the ability to generate RPMs into our package building process, or to use Red Hat 'spec' files with dpkg-dev. Someday I'm gonna figure out how to do that. Cheers, - Jim
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