Re: [seul-edu] Packaging seul-edu apps?

[Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, jeff covey wrote:
> don't forget; we're the same folks now.  ;^)

Er, yeah, I forgot :)

> i'm not sure how much information is needed that's not already
> provided by existing resources.  afaik, all current distributions use
> one of three forms of packaging:  tgz, deb, or rpm.  each freshmeat
> appindex entry can have links to download urls for each of these.  i
> appreciate the complication that rpm-based systems aren't as
> standardized as deb-based ones, but daniel veillard already does a
> good job of tracking rpms across distros with his rpmfind database.
> for example:
> 
> http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/gimp.html
> 
> if there were an app for which we wanted to track rpms for redhat,
> mandrake, caldera, and yellow dog, the rpm download url on freshmeat
> could just point to daniel's page.  no need to reduplicate his efforts.

Hm.  Not bad.  Doesn't quite work for what I need for my working group,
tho, which is a status of a package wrt each distro.  Well, specifically,
I just need to track the status wrt debian.  If it's in progress, I need
to know that ... but perhaps this is only a Debian problem?  I'm not sure
if other distros have statuses on individual packages like that (at least
nothing that's made public).

Looks like I'll be "rolling my own" for this project.  If it's
sufficiently complicated, I'll put whatever I make back into Debian.

Ben
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