On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Yang Lao wrote:

Please do not do this. The Linux Standard Base exists in order to avoid this situation.

Nevertheless, not all distros use RPM, nor is it likely to be the case in the near future. It therefore makes sense to distribute Debian and Slackware packages in addition to RPMs even if LSB dictates otherwise.

--------------------------| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --------------------------|

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Mario Fetka mario.fetka@gmail.com wrote:

  my suggestion is to setup the version controllsystem on gnu-pascal.de
  and a bugtracker if needed
  mailinglist already exists

  my second suggestion is to create repositories for the different os's
  on gnu-pascal.de

  for ex:

  packages.gnu-pascal.de/deb for debian/ubuntu
  packages.gnu-pascal.de/mandriva
  packages.gnu-pascal.de/fedora
  packages.gnu-pascal.de/suse

  just my 2 euro Cent

  Mario

Debian repositories can be accessed via this sources.list line:

deb http://ftp.linuxfoundation.org/pub/lsb/repositories/debian lsb-4.0 \ main

The LSB is to prevent linux from getting forked-up!

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Martin Marques mmarques@fiq.unl.edu.arwrote:

John L. Ries escribió:

...

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Yang Lao wrote:

Please do not do this. The Linux Standard Base exists in order to avoid

...

this situation.

Nevertheless, not all distros use RPM, nor is it likely to be the case

in the near future. It therefore makes sense to distribute Debian and Slackware packages in addition to RPMs even if LSB dictates otherwise.

This was why I didn't understand what LSB had to do with having packages for different distros (even OS like *BSD or MacOS).