Re: rpm build question

2009/10/1 Robin Bowes <[email protected]>:
>> That's correct - the Net-SNMP binary RPM-based distribution essentially
>> bundles all of the core functionality into a single RPM (i.e. net-snmp).
>> This covers what some other distributions (e.g. Fedora/RedHat) divide
>> between multiple RPMs.
>>
>
> Was there a particular reason for using a different packaging structure
> to the one used by Redhat-flavour distros? Or did it just evolve separately?

Traditionally, we've tended to view the Net-SNMP project as a single entity.
So we started out (I think) by providing a simple RPM of the whole thing,
followed (very quickly) by splitting the tools and the development elements
into separate packages.
  Support for the perl modules came a little while later, as a separate RPM.

I believe that at when we started, RedHat was still shipping the UCD version.
so the RPM names were different anyway.   And of course the RedHat/Fedora
structure and naming conventions are different from the SuSE/Ubuntu ones.
(And there may well be other alternatives as well).


We're happy to try to make our binaries compatible with other vendor
provided distributions.   But I'm not sure there'd be much benefit from
trying to mimic them exactly - particularly given the range of systems that
we attempt to support.

Dave

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