discuss: TLDP in Linux distros
Subject:
Re: [discuss] TLDP in Linux distros
From:
Rahul Sundaram ####@####.####
Date:
15 Sep 2005 19:45:32 -0000
Message-Id: <4329CF58.9050703@redhat.com>
Stuart Ellis wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 00:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>>Has anyone looked into autopackage?
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>>>It may not be viable at the moment, as it's not compatible with
>>>distribution package tools.
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>>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.
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>It's more that the client-side bits may not be there to support
>autopackage files.
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The .package files are shell scripts that download the support code as
payload on demand. On subsequent runs you will get a GUI on top by default
>>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
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>Checkinstall has been around for a while for producing deb/RPM/Slackware
>packages:
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>http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
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>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.
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Yeah someone needs to look into that and other options
regards
Rahul
