We are preparing to release a new commercial application which will support zSeries linux distros, and are hoping to get some advice and/or suggestions for packaging the product for zSeries.
Our current thinking is to make the following distribution formats available: 1) "s390" (31 bit) architecture LSB 3.0 compatible RPM 2) "s390x" (64 bit) architecture LSB 3.0 compatible RPM 3) source rpm 4) source tarball These are our questions / issues: 1) RHEL 3.x is not LSB 3.0 compatible, whereas RHEL 4.2+ and SLE 9.3+ are. Would this affect a significant portion of the current zLinux installed population? Are there problems with LSB3.0 support on zSeries linux distros that we aren't aware of? 2) For non-LSB3.0 environments, we would have instructions on how to do a source RPM install or a source tarball "make/make install". Even though the build is simple, will this be a issue with some z Linux customers? Based on feedback, we can really decide to ship the package formats that users seem to want/need, but we would *really* like to keep the binary packages to a small number. We would like to be able to use a single zLinux image to build binary packages. It would be *ideal* for us to just ship source packages, but our intuition is that no matter how simple the build process, some customers will only want binaries (the opposite of my preference :-) Your comments and suggestions would really be appreciated. Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
