On Sun, 2013-06-02 at 14:20 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: […] > Create a bug report for it. I don't think that Walter realizes what's > standard. And this whole problem probably stems from the fact that he can't > put symlinks in the zip file that he generates, so he was talking about > making > it up to the maintainers to create the various symlinks, which IMHO is > unacceptable long term, but it seems to require either changing the main > release from a zip to something like 7zip or breaking it up per OS like a > number of people have been asking for for ages. Regardless, the fact that the > installer and rpm and whatnot are broken is unacceptable.
Not being able to put symlinks in a zipfile has nothing to do with getting deb files and RPM files correct since they should be built from tarballs. Sounds like the system for creating distributions is broken. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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