Re: [Chicken-users] RedHat and Debian packages

[Harri Haataja]

On 15/01/07, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> The fragmentation in the Linux world is ridiculous.  I'm on my 4th OS
> installation attempt in 3 weeks, trying to get either dual boot or
> triple boot systems going, because of RedHat vs. Debian issues.  All the
> Cell SDK stuff is RPM based, and it hadn't dawned on me that I simply
> couldn't use Debian.

Have you looked at alien?
http://packages.debian.org/alien

Then there's chroots, user mode kernels, emulators, Xen etc. These can
come handy.

> I hope CMake / CPack starts performing some miracles sometime, because
> otherwise, I couldn't possibly take Linux packaging seriously.  It's way
> too much of a mess.

I believe the packaging should be (mostly) left to the actual
projects' packagers. They should have all the knowledge, tools
(including bug tracking) and build farms etc for that.

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