discuss: TLDP in Linux distros
Subject:
Re: [discuss] TLDP in Linux distros
From:
Stuart Ellis ####@####.####
Date:
15 Sep 2005 19:08:40 -0000
Message-Id: <1126811329.2882.83.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 00:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>Has anyone looked into autopackage?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >It may not be viable at the moment, as it's not compatible with
> >distribution package tools.
> >
> It doesnt matter much for docs unlike say libraries. All we need is a
> method to copy over a tarball and setup a .desktop file probably for
> easy access to content.
It's more that the client-side bits may not be there to support
autopackage files.
> Autopackage is expected to get RPM and later on
> DEB support. I dont particularly care about it but its a choice for the
> LDP docs
Checkinstall has been around for a while for producing deb/RPM/Slackware
packages:
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
I've used it to make RPMs from simple source compiles, and it worked OK
- I haven't tried the options to produce packages for multiple formats.
