Re: Why not create packages?

[Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>]

Hi.

In <m3itu3pj78.fsf@C654771-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com>,
  on 18 Jul 2000 08:11:07 -0700,
 kumar1@home.com (Prasanth A. Kumar) wrote:

> If all you are working with is documentation, then rpms and very much
> compatible across distributions. The same is likely true with
> debs. However, please be away that Red Hat already ships a one CD set
> of all the LDP Howtos already...

I think Debian already has deb package for LDP documents.

 $ apt-cache show doc-linux-html
  Package: doc-linux-html
  Version: 2000.03-1
  Priority: optional
  Section: doc
  Maintainer: Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>
  Conflicts: doc, dhelp (<< 0.3.14), doc-linux-text (<< 98.06-1), doc-linux
  Replaces: doc-linux
  Architecture: all
  Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/doc/doc-linux-html_2000.03-1.deb
  Size: 5757928
  MD5sum: 552269bfc8db52cad28cc34e0f8e43be
  Description: Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in HTML format
   The doc-linux-html package provides the current Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs,
   and FAQs in HTML format. Alternatively, ASCII versions are provided
   in the doc-linux-text package.
   .
   The version number reflects the month in which doc-linux-html was created.
   .
   All files are available at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ (with versions
   in ASCII, DVI, HTML, postscript, and SGML)
  source: doc-linux
  installed-size: 22110

 $ apt-cache show doc-linux-text
  Package: doc-linux-text
  Version: 2000.03-1
  Priority: standard
  Section: doc
  Maintainer: Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>
  Conflicts: doc, doc-linux-html (<< 98.06-1), doc-linux
  Replaces: doc-linux
  Architecture: all
  Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/doc/doc-linux-text_2000.03-1.deb
  Size: 5211696
  MD5sum: 2c0da4155c3c4a49caa6205cd0a395b1
  Description: Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in ASCII format
   The doc-linux-text package provides the current Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs,
   and FAQs in ASCII format. Alternatively, HTML versions are provided
   in the doc-linux-html package.
   .
   The version number reflects the month in which doc-linux-text was created.
   .
   All files are available at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ (with versions
   in ASCII, DVI, HTML, postscript, and SGML)
  source: doc-linux
  installed-size: 5383


It may not be "the bleeding edge", but there may be several versions of debs
in a year, I think.


-- 
  Taketoshi Sano: <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>


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