I was thinking more that Debian/Ubuntu people might not want to join yet another list that may or may not provide anything useful for the deb world. There are a couple of people in the community who span this gap (Angelos) but that seems rare.
So I'm wondering if an RPM list is in order to let the rpm family work more closely. Of course this could be a generic packaging list. Thanks, Alex On 10/29/2013 11:36 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: > "Are we sure...?" > > The only things certain in life are death and taxes. ;-) > > More seriously, there is probably enough *nix specific stuff to be > discussed to make it worthwhile, but it could as well be simply called > "packaging" and open to all platform packagers, however we may find that > *nix packagers will get bored of windows issues and vice-versa. All this > to say that either name works for me. > > Daniel > > > On 13-10-28 12:49 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: >> Are we sure there's enough "Linux" specific packaging dicsussions to not >> make it a more generic list that covers issues that apply to osgeo4w, >> *BSD, OS X, mobile platforms (not mention Cygwin, Macports, homebrew, >> etc...)? >> >> Ubuntu and Debian already have lists specific to them. Or is this the >> RPM world trying to collaborate? >> >> Thanks, >> Alex >> >> On 10/22/2013 06:02 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: >>> Hi Daniel, >>> >>> +1 on the "linux-packaging" name. >>> >>> Best, >>> Angelos >>> >>> >>> On 10/21/2013 08:19 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote: >>>> Hi Angelos, >>>> >>>> I like the idea. If the goal is to focus on Linux packaging, then >>>> perhaps the list should be named "linux-packaging", to leave room for >>>> other lists for other platforms if/when needed (e.g. >>>> windows-packaging). >>>> >>>> FYI, once you are ready you should create a SAC ticket to have the >>>> list created, using the "System Admin" component at >>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ >>>> >>>> Daniel >>>> >>>> On 13-10-18 11:40 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> There have been some IRC discussions between Fedora-GIS and >>>>> openSUSE Geo >>>>> maintainers to join forces (as possible) regarding the packaging of >>>>> geospatial applications. >>>>> >>>>> We feel that such packaging projects (DebianGIS, UbuntuGIS, ELGIS, >>>>> Fedora-GIS, App:Geo, Arch AUR etc) could at least share patches, >>>>> workarounds, ideas, maybe even some code (especially when being on a >>>>> common RPM or DEB format). >>>>> >>>>> Then we thought: What if there was a common mailing list that all >>>>> GNU/Linux packagers could join and discuss? And who would be better to >>>>> host such a list than OSGeo? >>>>> >>>>> So this is the proposal: Lets create an OSGeo "packaging" mailing list >>>>> and lets work together. At first we can announce new packages being >>>>> created for every distro out there. Then perhaps we can share some >>>>> tickets etc. >>>>> >>>>> We *know* that every distro has its own ways of doing things and we >>>>> are >>>>> not proposing merging, but collaborating as much as possible... >>>>> >>>>> Thoughts? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Angelos >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
