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Re: [LUG] Packaging

 

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Neil Williams wrote:
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> How many people here use a non-.deb AND non-.rpm package manager for their 
> everyday GNU/Linux systems?

Deb's everywhere these days - just a few more Redhat boxes to retire.

> Does each one have their network of maintainers who package tarballs into 
> their own package format?

As far as I know many GNU projects just ship tar.gz and leave it to
package maintainers.

There are some other weird formats I use occaisonally but these are
usually for dedicated distros - think wireless devices etc.

> Who uses a non-86 platform? (apart from MacOSX).

Yeap. Please always cope with other number representations.

Learn from DJBs mistakes pointers may always be integers, but not all
integers are suitable for pointers ;)

> How pure does an autofoo config need to be to run on every GNU system? Is 
> 'sed' always around? Perl? bash may not be, as long as it's fairly simple 
> test stuff, shouldn't most shells work?

Nope - there are a lot of shells not everything has all of them.

I think where you can be explicit in the autoconf stuff you should be,
as this not only saves other people time, it is declaring (at least
informally) what you require. This helps packagers.

Often what you require is both "more specific" thus more widely
available than you think. Such as GNU chess requires a "Posix compatible
thread library" now (must sort the bugs), but there are "posix like"
thread library implementations that don't support the subtler aspects of
threading, but are perfectly adequate to run GNU chess.

> Anyone ever built a package for Cygwin? What does that require?

If it works under Redhat, the Cygwin people will cope, but it may run
dog slow.

http://cygwin.com/setup.html
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