Re: [gentoo-server] Linux Standard Base and Linux Core Consortium

[Jose Gonzalez Gomez <jgonzalez@opentechnet.com>]

    Andrew,

    I just took a quick look at the links, so I didn't notice that :o(

    Anyway, is the RPM format mandatory for the whole system, or just 
for installing LSB compliant software? I mean, right now some of the 
packages in Gentoo are installed in binary format, as they aren't 
available in source format, so maybe you could build all your Gentoo 
system the Gentoo way, as long as you get sure you get an LSB compliant 
system, and then use RPM to install applications that are only available 
in that format. Keep in mind that we are talking here about commercial 
software, so you won't get the source for them, and I think that being 
able to install things like certified Oracle or IBM software would be 
benefitial for Gentoo.

    Best regards
    Jose

Andrew Fant wrote:

> Jose,
>    I would suspect that the odds of Gentoo complying with either of 
> these standards are slim to none as long as they define RPM as the 
> mandatory package management format.
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> Andy
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> --On Friday, November 19, 2004 18:05:53 +0100 Jose Gonzalez Gomez 
> <jgonzalez@opentechnet.com> wrote:
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>>     Hi there,
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>>     I found today two new acronyms: LSB (Linux Standard Base)[1] and LCC
>> (Linux Core Consortium)[2]
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>>     [1] http://www.linuxbase.org/
>>     [2] http://www.mandrakesoft.com/lcc/faq
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>>     They seem to be interesting, as they intend to build on a common
>> base, specified in the linux standard base, so providers of commercial
>> software are able to certify their products on this platform, so any
>> distribution complying with it may get kind of automatically certified
>> (or something like that). I just wanted to mention here to hear your
>> opinions, and comment on the possibility / interest of Gentoo complying
>> with LSB.
>>
>>     Best regards
>>     Jose
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