Doug, From my -- little -- experience with alien, I know there are problem with the shared libraries when you convert an .deb package to a .rpm one. If the .deb package of a binary application is prepared on a Debian system with a library X with a number Y and you want to install it under a RedHat distro using library X with number Y' the binary may not be able to link at run time with the library X, number Y'. I don"t know if there are any solutions to this issue. With applicaiton written with interpreted language the problem may be less sensitive. Hilaire On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:57:18 -0500 Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net> wrote: > While we still need to get more Phase 1 and 2 evals done on the > software in our App Index, I think we have enough apps that have > passed Phase 2 that we can begin Phase 3, the packaging of those > apps. I think there are three ways to pursue this. > > First, we should submit RFPs to Debian for all the apps we'd like > to have packaged. If someone picks them up and packages them, > they'll be available for Debian use (including DebianEdu, of > course) and for us to convert to RPMs and TGZs with alien. > > Second, we should contact the maintainers of the individual > packages and see if they either have already packaged them as > DEBs, RPMs, and/or TGZs, or would be interested in doing so. If > we can get a substantial number of them to do this it will lessen > our workload while giving them more exposure for their work. > > Third, we should download and package any remaining Phase 2 apps > ourselves. I think we should initially package them as DEBs, > then use alien to convert to the other formats. This will allow > us to maintain a similarity of process with apps done for the > Debian project, and in fact will allow us to contribute to Debian > (I think). This will be a good thing for our visibility and good > feeling toward us in other parts of the Linux community. I agree totaly. > > I'd like to have some people from this mailing list volunteer to > help do these things. I need someone to go through > http://www.seul.org/edu/Phase2.txt and create Debian RFPs for any > apps that aren't already in Debian or that don't already have > RFPs listed. I also need a few people to locate the maintainers > of the apps on the above page and send them a message telling > what we're doing and asking them for packaging help with their > app. I'll write up a template for this sort of message later. > > After we've done all that we should have an idea of how much > effort we need to put into the third option I've listed. We'll > definitely need some folks to step forward to help with that too. > > OK folks, it's time for us all to roll up our sleeves and take on > a bit of the workload for this ISO! If we all help, we'll get > this accomplished pretty quickly without too much work for any > one of us. > > -- > If this helped you please take the time to rate the value > of this post; just click on the Affero link below. > > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=drloss > > Doug Loss Courage is resistance to > Data Network Coordinator fear, mastery of fear -- > Bloomsburg University not absence of fear. > dloss@bloomu.edu Mark Twain > > -- OFSET - http://www.ofset.org Free the teacher with the Freeduc-cd - http://www.ofset.org/projects/edusoft/edusoft.html
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