Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-19 Thread Matthew Miller
Yeah, let's please just stop this thread? I can't see anything further productive coming out of it. Thank you. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@l

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-18 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Saturday, 18 July 2020 at 12:19, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 1:21 AM Anthony F McInerney wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 04:19, John M. Harris Jr > > wrote: > >> > >> On Thursday, July 16, 2020 3:11:19 AM MST Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > >> > there was no reason not to

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-18 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 1:21 AM Anthony F McInerney wrote: > > > > On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 04:19, John M. Harris Jr wrote: >> >> On Thursday, July 16, 2020 3:11:19 AM MST Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: >> > there was no reason not to replac it with regular apt >> >> Nico touched on these already, but th

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-17 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 06:29, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > On Friday, July 17, 2020 10:20:54 PM MST Anthony F McInerney wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 04:19, John M. Harris Jr > > > > wrote: > > > On Thursday, July 16, 2020 3:11:19 AM MST Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > > > there was no reason not

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-17 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Friday, July 17, 2020 10:20:54 PM MST Anthony F McInerney wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 04:19, John M. Harris Jr > > wrote: > > On Thursday, July 16, 2020 3:11:19 AM MST Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > > there was no reason not to replac it with regular apt > > > > Nico touched on these alread

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-17 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 04:19, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > On Thursday, July 16, 2020 3:11:19 AM MST Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > there was no reason not to replac it with regular apt > > Nico touched on these already, but that's simply not possible. Rather, > it's > possible, but would immediately

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-17 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Thursday, July 16, 2020 3:11:19 AM MST Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > there was no reason not to replac it with regular apt Nico touched on these already, but that's simply not possible. Rather, it's possible, but would immediately break your system upon installing software using apt. -- John M

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-17 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 3:15 AM Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > > Oddly, the subject of the original post infers getting rid of rpm but > > the post itself sounds like it's proposing something different and > > that's why I decided to speak up. > > Yes, poor joke of mine, keeps hitting home though :)

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-17 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
> Oddly, the subject of the original post infers getting rid of rpm but > the post itself sounds like it's proposing something different and > that's why I decided to speak up. Yes, poor joke of mine, keeps hitting home though :) Ditching RPM in favor of DPKG was never meant to be a system-wide c

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-16 Thread Ian Kent
On Thu, 2020-07-16 at 10:11 +, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > Simply put, "no". Debian and Ubuntu ".deb" packages too often don't > > follow the File System Hierarchy, they may have different layouts > > and > > package naming capitalization schemes for matching Fedora packagers > > like "PyYAML"

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-16 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
> Simply put, "no". Debian and Ubuntu ".deb" packages too often don't > follow the File System Hierarchy, they may have different layouts and > package naming capitalization schemes for matching Fedora packagers > like "PyYAML", they may have overlapping pre-set uids and mismatched > group name con

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 4:29 AM Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:39 PM Dishant Pandya wrote: > > > > Its ok to have something that builds deb packages on Fedora, but in my > > opinion RPM is far more better then debian packages. Also the Dnf and yum > > package manager on

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-15 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:39 PM Dishant Pandya wrote: > > Its ok to have something that builds deb packages on Fedora, but in my > opinion RPM is far more better then debian packages. Also the Dnf and yum > package manager on Fedora are far more advanced than apt on Ubuntu and other > Debian Ba

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-14 Thread Dishant Pandya
Its ok to have something that builds deb packages on Fedora, but in my opinion RPM is far more better then debian packages. Also the Dnf and yum package manager on Fedora are far more advanced than apt on Ubuntu and other Debian Based system. I have been using fedora for over 2 years now and I h

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2020-07-14 Thread Dishant Pandya
Its ok to have something that builds deb packages on Fedora, but in my opinion RPM is far more better then debian packages. Also the Dnf and yum package manager on Fedora are far more advanced than apt on Ubuntu and other Debian Based system. I have been using fedora for over 2 years now and I h

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-22 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 2/21/19 8:22 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote: On 2/20/2019 7:29 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: On 2/20/19 5:19 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: No, that was a bad joke from my end, what I need is proper apt in Fedora to use sbuild. If you also do t

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-21 Thread Japheth Cleaver
On 2/20/2019 7:29 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: On 2/20/19 5:19 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: No, that was a bad joke from my end, what I need is proper apt in Fedora to use sbuild. If you also do the review-request for apt [1] it would be gr

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-21 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
Hi Graham, On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 1:23 PM Graham Leggett wrote: > > On 19 Feb 2019, at 12:03, Dridi Boukelmoune > wrote: > > > Greetings packagers, > > > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks > > everything downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-21 Thread Graham Leggett
On 19 Feb 2019, at 12:03, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > Greetings packagers, > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks > everything downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should > have from day one. DPKG solved the packaging problem, but was particularly inel

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-21 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 16:33, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:30 PM Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > > On 2/20/19 5:19 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > >> No, that was a bad joke from my end, what I need is pr

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-20 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 20:18 +, Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 16:33 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:30 PM Panu Matilainen < > > pmati...@redhat.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > On 2/20/19 5:19 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +01

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-20 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 16:33 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:30 PM Panu Matilainen > wrote: > > > > On 2/20/19 5:19 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > > > No, that was a bad joke from my end, what I need is prop

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-20 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 16:31 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:20 PM Sérgio Basto > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > > No, that was a bad joke from my end, what I need is proper apt in > > > Fedora to use sbuild. > > > > If y

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-20 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:30 PM Panu Matilainen wrote: > > On 2/20/19 5:19 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > >> No, that was a bad joke from my end, what I need is proper apt in > >> Fedora to use sbuild. > > > > If you also do the review-req

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-20 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:20 PM Sérgio Basto wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > No, that was a bad joke from my end, what I need is proper apt in > > Fedora to use sbuild. > > If you also do the review-request for apt [1] it would be great > dh-python also w

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-20 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 2/20/19 5:19 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: No, that was a bad joke from my end, what I need is proper apt in Fedora to use sbuild. If you also do the review-request for apt [1] it would be great dh-python also welcomed :) [2] The problem

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-20 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 11:46 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > No, that was a bad joke from my end, what I need is proper apt in > Fedora to use sbuild. If you also do the review-request for apt [1] it would be great dh-python also welcomed :) [2] The problem is apt is in use by apt-rpm and was no

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-20 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:04 AM Akarshan Biswas wrote: > > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks everything > > downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should have from day one. > > Doesn't we have flatpaks for that purpose? No, that was a bad joke from m

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-20 Thread Akarshan Biswas
> I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks everything > downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should have from day one. Doesn't we have flatpaks for that purpose? -- Akarshan Biswas ___ devel mailing list -- devel

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
> I'm the debhelper maintainer > > where are your packages submissions ? (can you add me please ) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=gnu-config https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=strip-nondeterminism I CC'd you just now. According to Neal we may not need to package GNU config, l

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 20:00 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > TLDR , apt-rpm should be retired because nobody use it since more > > than > > 10 years . > > > > I maintain a lot of debian package in Fedora but apt-debian still > > not > > on Official repos you can get it from my devel corp repo

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:08 PM Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 11:11, Dridi Boukelmoune > wrote: > [..] >> >> Apt is a mix of C, Perl and C++ code, so I would be reassured if I >> could have a C++ co-maintainer too. I'm only a C developer so if >> something goes wrong outside o

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
> TLDR , apt-rpm should be retired because nobody use it since more than > 10 years . > > I maintain a lot of debian package in Fedora but apt-debian still not > on Official repos you can get it from my devel corp repo [1] > My goal is make a system where rpm produce deb files , to allow Debian >

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
> For what it's worth, this was a terrible lede for this email. And I couldn't help it, my inner prankster insisted :) > having worked extensively with both package managers, I can sincerely > tell you both are ugly as hell, but rpm is less ugly than dpkg. Yes, I'm not saying that rpm is perfect

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Tomasz Kłoczko
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 11:11, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: [..] > Apt is a mix of C, Perl and C++ code, so I would be reassured if I > could have a C++ co-maintainer too. I'm only a C developer so if > something goes wrong outside of the C realm that would be helpful. > Doesn't matter in what kind o

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 12:16 PM Sérgio Basto wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 08:21 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:40 AM Sérgio Basto > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 11:03 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > > > Greetings packagers, > > > > > > > > I know how

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 08:21 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:40 AM Sérgio Basto > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 11:03 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > > Greetings packagers, > > > > > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks > > > everythin

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:40 AM Sérgio Basto wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 11:03 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > Greetings packagers, > > > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks > > everything downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should > > have fr

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 11:03 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > Greetings packagers, > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks > everything downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should > have from day one. > > I'm calling this initiative fedpkg: Fedora Embrac

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:06 AM Leigh Scott wrote: > > > Greetings packagers, > > > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks > > everything downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should > > have from day one. > > > > I'm calling this initiative fedpkg: Fedora

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Leigh Scott
> Greetings packagers, > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks > everything downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should > have from day one. > > I'm calling this initiative fedpkg: Fedora Embraces DPKG. > > A bit of background here: I build both RPMs an

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:05 AM Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > Greetings packagers, > > I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks > everything downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should > have from day one. > > I'm calling this initiative fedpkg: Fedora Embraces

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:20 AM Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > > * Dridi Boukelmoune [19/02/2019 11:03] : > > > > Three of those packages are heavy on Perl code, and I'm not a Perl > > Monk. I tried to CC perl-sig as per the guidelines [1] (also tried with > > the mailing list address) but bugzilla rep

Re: Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Dridi Boukelmoune [19/02/2019 11:03] : > > Three of those packages are heavy on Perl code, and I'm not a Perl > Monk. I tried to CC perl-sig as per the guidelines [1] (also tried with > the mailing list address) but bugzilla replied kindly: > > CC: perl-sig did not match anything The Perl S

Ditch RPM in favor of DPKG

2019-02-19 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
Greetings packagers, I know how important RPM is to the Fedora Project, but it breaks everything downstream and we'd be better off using DPKG as we should have from day one. I'm calling this initiative fedpkg: Fedora Embraces DPKG. A bit of background here: I build both RPMs and DEBs for $DAYJOB