On 18 March 2013 16:26, TNHarris <tellia...@whoopdedo.org> wrote: > On Monday, March 18, 2013 02:50:46 AM steve donovan wrote: >> The Ruby Gems approach is promising: put all the extra logic in there. >> The rockspec still has to specify the names of the equivalent >> Debian/Fedora/etc packages. The versioning is a little tricky because >> LR does need to know what version the system package corresponds to. > > That's the responsibility of the Debian maintainer. The system package > includes its own rockspec. LR will ask the system where to look for the extra > rockspecs. Push anything that's system-specific into a hook and make it the > distribution's problem. > > Actually, looking at the current Debian luarocks, I think it's already capable > of finding system packages if they start including rockspecs. They just have > to rebuild the manifest when being installed.
I think that would be great. > I suppose that needs an update- > manifest option to luarocks-admin. `luarocks-admin make-manifest /some/local/tree/` does that already. -- Hisham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
