lsbsi changes happening
"Wichmann, Mats D" <[email protected]> Thu, 13 May 2004 15:33:51 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lsb.implementation |
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Sorry to be moving the target when it wasn't that stable to begin with, but... We're trying to push various tools forward into a beta state, and that requires a platform to test on that implements LSB 2.0 modularization. The easiest way to set that up seemed to be to split the lsbsi into lsbsi-core and lsbsi-graphics. So the checkins flying past now are trying to make this change. - lsb_release, which is imported into the lsbsi, now knows about modules - the lsbsi-lsb package, which populates the freshly initialized rpm database in the lsbsi, now is providing the lsb-core provide - the lsbsi (phase3) is generating a processor-specific /etc/lsb-release file which provides the appropriate lsb-core arch-specific, plus lsb-core noarch. - phase3 is no longer building the xfree package, that will now move to be a separate phase. There's more work to come... Question: should the lsbsi addons remain as tarballs, or should they become rpm packages that install inside of the lsbsi? Leaving them as they are (tarballs) means the rpm database doesn't acquire extra contents, so I'd probably leave it alone, but it's a question. Additional modules (just graphics for now) either have to be an rpm, or have to have a matching mini-rpm which adds the right provides to the database and updates the new /etc/lsb-release.d directory.