[OSGeo-Discuss] Distribution Special Interest Groups

[pmarc]

2006/3/8, Silke Reimer <Silke.Reimer at intevation.de>:

> > like Debian-GIS.
> > People there are working hard to get updated packages under Debian
> > Repositories.
>
> The main problem is not to get the packages unter a Debian
> Repository but to fed them into official Debian distribution. BTW:

I was refering to the official Debian repos (i.e. the distribution)

> This should be done for distributions like Fedora as well in my
> opinion. If every FC packager announces his packages on Fedora
> Extra other packagers could do their work based on them instead of
> beginning from scratch.

Agreed.

> > I do not know how these things work in the real world, but maybe
> > converting existing .deb packages to rpm with alien should do...

> Unfortunately your suggestion is not feasible. It is even worse: You
> have to build RPMS for each RPM-based distribution: Fedora, SuSE,
> Mandrive etc.  The reason lies in the management of package
> dependencies. The libraries that are necessary to build and run a
> package are named differently in each distribution. Also the
> versions that are available differ between the distributions.

Maybe OSGeo should stick to the proven method of distributing tarballs
and then link to the "associate" distros.
Or else, I think I didn't get what is meant by this OSGeo Distribution
project...

Could someone please elaborate/provide links on that?
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