From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j45EC6EU006043 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 14:12:06 GMT Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DTh5H-0004pt-J2 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 14:12:12 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DTh4j-0005fh-Iy for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 May 2005 15:11:37 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 15:11:34 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware Message-ID: <20050505151134.4e40929e@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <200505050328.06938.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> References: <1115245904.4665.23.camel@enterprise> <20050505001415.39e44e97@snowdrop> <200505050328.06938.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Message-Flag: It's a feature, not a bug Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Thu__5_May_2005_15_11_34_+0100_xzrN_Muz=61B2HU6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: 2e3a0748-9f7b-49a3-a16d-a86e4f8063df X-Archives-Hash: 4020c1475b94d049e667855a5fc94d7b --Signature_Thu__5_May_2005_15_11_34_+0100_xzrN_Muz=61B2HU6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 5 May 2005 03:28:06 +0200 Michiel de Bruijne wrote: | On Thursday 05 May 2005 01:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > For us to support LSB: | > | > * We'd have to use RPM instead of portage |=20 | That's not correct, quote from LSB: | "The distribution itself may use a different packaging format for its | own packages, and of course it may use any available mechanism for | installing the LSB-conformant packages."=20 |=20 | So basically we can continue to do rpm2targz like we do now and still | be LSB-compliant. Except that we'd have to handle arbitrary rpm deps properly. | > * We'd have to support all the daft FHS ideas like /media, /srv and | > /wedonotunderstandtheunixfs |=20 | Like you said before: | "Thing is, it really isn't a problem. Data files go in $(datadir), | configuration files go in $(sysconfdir) and so on, and the build | system handles the rest. It doesn't matter what $(datadir) is actually | defined to be (unless your code really really sucks)." |=20 | With a proper build system you can install the same package in the | current Gentoo FHS or the LSB FHS. Except that FHS is just plain wrong. | > * We'd have to make X support mandatory |=20 | Only in the LSB-profile, the normal profile doesn't need to have | X-libs installed. So, we'd have to make X support mandatory. Yeah, greaaaat server platform that would make. | > * We'd have to ship ancient versions of core libraries |=20 | There is some interest in that already, see GLEP19 No, ancient. Not old, ancient. And GLEP 19 doesn't involve any backporting of patches to said ancient versions. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Thu__5_May_2005_15_11_34_+0100_xzrN_Muz=61B2HU6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCeimY96zL6DUtXhERAkpeAKDQtcm3qVaKXFNv5a25VMHllpybXQCfbNRy H7ONQnoVqNFJW3yKNXzjOmE= =FSbv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Thu__5_May_2005_15_11_34_+0100_xzrN_Muz=61B2HU6-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list