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Re: [LUG] Packaging

 

There's Portage for Gentoo, which is a nice efficient system, and
there's also that shitty CNR thing which Linspire use to dumb-down APT
(for money!!) and also Autopackage (distro neutral.) Oh, and there's
all those wierd distros which have /Programs/ProgramName filesystem
structures - they have their own packaging systems as well. The only
one of these I use is Autopackage, though I prefer to use apt for
installing software if it's available in Deb.

On 09/07/05, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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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