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<li><em>To</em>: David Merrill <<A HREF="mailto:dcmerrill@mindspring.com">dcmerrill@mindspring.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Why not create packages?</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Stein Gjoen <<A HREF="mailto:sgjoen@mail.nyx.net">sgjoen@mail.nyx.net</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:14:00 +0200</li>
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David Merrill wrote:
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> Dan York wrote:
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> > Gary & David wrote:
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> > > >>>>> "D" == David Merrill <dcmerrill@mindspring.com> writes:
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> > > D> Dan York is stepping up to the plate and offering to do the
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> > > D> work; why not let him?
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> > > If Dan has the resources to handle all the 140+ Linux distributions,
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> > > and he wants to host the resulting archive, then I say go for it, but
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> > > my expert opinion is that this is madness.
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Could the people in know expand in this please? Just how do the various
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distributions differ?
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> > Ummm... I am willing to *help* with creating packages, but I don't
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> > have the time, resources, or expertise to do it all myself.
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> Should have written, "offering to do^H^Hhelp with the work".
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What was proposed earlier was thta it might be a good startingpoint
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to create a packaging tool where you input paramters such as
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language (English, Japanese etc), format (HTML, text, PDF etc)
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and so on and then you get a tarball out of it.
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Progressing from there to a package in RPM or DEB would be the
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next step.
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> > I guess I didn't realize that the differences were so severe between
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> > the various RPM-related distros and between Debian and Corel. I
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> > thought that RPMs were basically the same, although admittedly they
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> > put them in potentially different directories.
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> If they are different, they ought *not* to be. There's no vendor
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> specific requirement for this, and if it's not in the FHS it should be.
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FSSTND: /usr/doc/
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FHS: /usr/share/doc/
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It is mentioned in the specifications somewhere.
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> > Perhaps LDP should specify a distribution-neutral location for all
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> > the HOWTOs, such as /opt/doc or /opt/ldp. Or perhaps this is /usr/doc.
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> > It just seems like there should be a place for them to always reside.
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> > Then the packages could just install into that dir and they could
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> > work across all distros.
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> Does anyone know the FHS guideline? I just looked on their website at
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> the 2.0 version, but didn't even see /usr/doc listed. Seemed strange;
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> maybe it was temporary blindness or something.
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The directory /usr/share/doc is mentioned early on in
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<A HREF="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-4.8.html">http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-4.8.html</A>
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though it does not specify what is to go in below. Thus it seems we
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can define a directory where within which we define the structure.
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If we specify the structure it makes it far simpler to interlink the
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various HOWTOs.
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> > And perhaps it's just too much of a pain in the neck.
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> Maybe so. But I'd also be willing to help. It can't be that hard to
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> auto-generate current rpms in a script. I don't know anything about
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> debian, but I've used rpm a little.
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There has been some discussions on packaging tools earlier, you might
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find something in the archives.
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Regards,
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Stein Gjoen
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<li><strong><a name="03232" href="msg03232.html">Why not create packages?</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Dan York <dyork@linuxcare.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03233" href="msg03233.html">Re: Why not create packages?</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> "Greg Ferguson" <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03236" href="msg03236.html">Re: Why not create packages?</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Dan York <dyork@linuxcare.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03237" href="msg03237.html">Re: Why not create packages?</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03238" href="msg03238.html">Re: Why not create packages?</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> "Greg Ferguson" <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03272" href="msg03272.html">Re: Why not create packages?</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Merrill <dcmerrill@mindspring.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03278" href="msg03278.html">Re: Why not create packages?</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03285" href="msg03285.html">Re: Why not create packages?</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Dan York <dyork@linuxcare.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03290" href="msg03290.html">Re: Why not create packages?</a></strong>
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