[lokisetup] third party packaging

[Chunky Kibbles]

To suffix something to what Ryan already said; this may have changed,
but last time I looked, loki setup was only really conducive to a
miniscule subsection of the LSB's overall FHS packaging attitude,
specifically the stuff to do with /opt/<packagename> :

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES

Loki setup is never and has never been a packaging system that would
function well within the restrictions of the FHS, at least as I
understand the FHS and Loki Setup.

Gary (-;

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:42:19PM -0700, Leibowitz, Michael wrote:
> I have been researching the current state and possible solutions to the
> problem of third-party packaging on Linux.  What I mean by third-party
> packages, is packages that are not supplied by the distro and are
> designed to work on multiple distros.  At the present moment, it seems
> that there is no equally palatable solution to distros, vendors, and
> users.  I have started a discussion on the lsb-discuss mailing list of
> possible solutions to the problem, as well as a discussion of the
> current state of affairs.  If you are interested in joining this
> discussion, please join the conversation there.  Additionally, there
> will be an FSG packaging summit in Berlin on Dec 5 where future
> directions for third-party packaging ideas are discussed. 
>  
> The original post to lsb-discuss can be found here:
> http://lists.freestandards.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2006-October/003085
> .html
> 
> 
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> Michael Leibowitz
> Software Engineer, Channel Platform Solutions Group
> Intel Corporation
> michael.leibowitz at intel.com
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