[M3devel] CM3 RELENG: suggestion for distribution packages

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>:

> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 15:24 +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
>> All bin packages are pre-built and can be installed with the
>> included install.sh (which simply executes cm3 -ship multiple times).
>
> As I said, this kind of binary packages are not something Linux people
> want.

Why?

> Also, in standard RPM based distro (and most are, except ones which are
> Debian based but they have similar packaging philosophy) we have
> features which make handling of big number of interdependent packages
> easy task. Installation of cvsup on fresh system will pull suplib and
> also package(s) with m3core/libm3/set/parseparams/patternmatching
> libs... Big number of packages or not, it's something RPM (system) will
> do for me.
>
> I have some (RPM spec file) templates developed which enable making
> packages which contain interdependent packages and once I get content of
> your packages (combined with some free time) I will make spec files with
> same content.

If nobody thinks these bin packages are useful, we can leave them
out without any problem. I thought they would be a good compromise
as they provide both sources and binaries and may be used as the
base for both kinds of system dependent packages.

As I said before, I don't really intend to provide packages for
Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Solaris, MacOS, Windows, Solaris etc.
That's something I cannot manage and maintain. Elego can provide web
and disk resources, but everything else needs to be done by dedicated
users.

If the packaging and installation process for these systems will
be completely decoupled from any kind of standard release packages,
that's fine too.

Nonetheless I'd like to get to the point where there's a working
release again which can be used by anyone in the same way.

So if there is anything such a standard distribution should provide
which can be done without much efforts, I'd like to hear about it.
I tried to conform to Peter Eiserloh's wishes, as far as it they
can be reasonably fulfilled within some weeks. Now I'm not really
sure what it is that's wanted.

Thanks for your input,

Olaf
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