Re: Why not create packages?

[David Merrill <dcmerrill@mindspring.com>]

Dan York wrote:
> 
> Gary & David wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "D" == David Merrill <dcmerrill@mindspring.com> writes:
> >
> >     D> Dan York is stepping up to the plate and offering to do the
> >     D> work; why not let him?
> >
> > If Dan has the resources to handle all the 140+ Linux distributions,
> > and he wants to host the resulting archive, then I say go for it, but
> > my expert opinion is that this is madness.
> 
> Ummm... I am willing to *help* with creating packages, but I don't
> have the time, resources, or expertise to do it all myself.

Should have written, "offering to do^H^Hhelp with the work".
 
> I guess I didn't realize that the differences were so severe between
> the various RPM-related distros and between Debian and Corel. I
> thought that RPMs were basically the same, although admittedly they
> put them in potentially different directories.

If they are different, they ought *not* to be. There's no vendor
specific requirement for this, and if it's not in the FHS it should be.

> Perhaps LDP should specify a distribution-neutral location for all
> the HOWTOs, such as /opt/doc or /opt/ldp.  Or perhaps this is /usr/doc.
> It just seems like there should be a place for them to always reside.
> Then the packages could just install into that dir and they could
> work across all distros.

Does anyone know the FHS guideline? I just looked on their website at
the 2.0 version, but didn't even see /usr/doc listed. Seemed strange;
maybe it was temporary blindness or something.
 
> And perhaps it's just too much of a pain in the neck.

Maybe so. But I'd also be willing to help. It can't be that hard to
auto-generate current rpms in a script. I don't know anything about
debian, but I've used rpm a little.

-- 
David C. Merrill, Ph.D.
dcmerrill@mindspring.com


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