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<h1>Why not create packages?</h1>
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<li><em>To</em>: ldp-discuss <<A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org">ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Why not create packages?</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Dan York <<A HREF="mailto:dyork@linuxcare.com">dyork@linuxcare.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:29:28 -0400</li>
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Folks,
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Stein's LWN news piece made me curious - why don't we make available
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packages in rpm and dpkg formats? (and a tarball for that matter)
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I'm a relative newcomer to these lists, so I don't know the past LDP
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history and how you all came to certain decisions.
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When I saw that note, it just sort of clicked with me... I'm not really
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familiar with the process of making an rpm file or a dpkg file, but if
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our goal is to make it *easy* for people to get the most recent copies
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of all the HOWTOs and to make it easy for distributions to include the
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copies in their distros... why not make up packages for them?
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It could be something like every 3 months, we build an rpm, .deb and
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.tgz tarball and put them in the download section. That way if people
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wanted the most recent versions, they could certainly download them
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individually... or if they just wanted an easy install, they could
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have the packages that were up to date as of some time ago. It would
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be better than them continuing to use the older copies provided with
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distros.
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There would be the added benefit that the packages could then be found
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at places like rpmfind.com which would only help to further draw attention
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to the work done here.
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I'd be willing to work with some other folks on putting packages together
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and doing so on a regular basis.... unless there is some philosophical
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or other reason why the LDP has not done so to date.
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Regards,
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Dan
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Dan York, Linuxcare, Inc.
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