[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.)
From: |
Tom Tromey |
Subject: |
Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.) |
Date: |
12 Jan 2001 21:45:49 -0700 |
>>>>> "Rusty" == Rusty Ballinger <address@hidden> writes:
Rusty> - As a developer who builds & distributes packages, I'd love a
Rusty> tool which abstracts platform-specific packaging, the same way
Rusty> autoconf & automake abstract platform-specific building. I
Rusty> don't want to become a member of every packaging tool's
Rusty> community; I just want it to be easy to build a variety of
Rusty> package formats from a single source tree & package
Rusty> description.
I wasn't fully clear.
I do think it would be useful. However it seems that most package
maintainers are not also the package developers. And, most package
maintainers only develop for a single platform.
Rusty> - As an end user who builds & installs software on my own
Rusty> systems, I would rather build & install a package appropriate
Rusty> to my system than "make install".
That's interesting. I don't hear that much!
>> Introducing another tool would probably just make things harder for
>> Debian/RPM package maintainers.
Rusty> How so? (If they don't want to use the tool, they don't have
Rusty> to!)
Yeah, you're right.
Anyway I think the big problem is sub-package breakdown. Maybe this
is solveable. I'm willing to put patches into automake that help with
`autopackage'.
The automake-related idea I had was that installable objects would be
marked by the sub-package they belong to. Something like:
lib_LIBRARIES = libfoo.a
devel_header_HEADERS = foo/foo.h
Tom
- Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.), Geoffrey Wossum, 2001/01/11
- Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.), Tom Tromey, 2001/01/12
- Message not available
- Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.), Rusty Ballinger, 2001/01/12
- Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.),
Tom Tromey <=
- Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.), Ganesan Rajagopal, 2001/01/13
- Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.), Tom Tromey, 2001/01/13
- Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.), Michael Still, 2001/01/13
- Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.), Alexandre Oliva, 2001/01/13
- Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.), Michael Still, 2001/01/13
- Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.), Tom Tromey, 2001/01/13
- Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.), Derek R. Price, 2001/01/16
- Prev by Date:
Re: Automake: Compiling sources in other directories
- Next by Date:
Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.)
- Previous by thread:
Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.)
- Next by thread:
Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.)
- Index(es):