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Extending Linux

Posted Sep 18, 2002 11:25 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Extending Linux by pointwood
Parent article: Extending Linux

Um, RPM *is* an LSB standard.


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Extending Linux

Posted Sep 18, 2002 15:01 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Yes, it's already standard. LSB 1.2 is complete, and rpm is part of specification: http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.2.0/gLSB/swinstall.html

On the same page we read:

The distribution itself may use a different packaging format for its own packages
I don't think that the effect of LSB on such distributions will be very profound.

Extending Linux

Posted Sep 19, 2002 10:51 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link]

so, what you're saying is that ex. Gentoo will never become LSB compliant?

Extending Linux

Posted Sep 19, 2002 11:02 UTC (Thu) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link]

so, what you're saying is that ex. Gentoo will never become LSB compliant?

The LSB requires that an RPM file be installable. It does not seem to preclude the use of things like alien to make this happen.

I have no idea whether or not Gentoo plans to support the LSB, but that's a separate question. The issue at hand is whether or not a third-party LSB-compliant app, supplied in RPM format, will install and run on a given Linux distribution.

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