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From:
Alan Burlison
Date:
October 3, 2003 01:51
Subject:
Re: Hidden dependencies?
Message ID:
3F7D3887.8060309@sun.com
schwern@pobox.com wrote:
> Producing a META.yml file from which some external party generates an rpm
> file is a much better approach than Perl shipping with a spec file. Why?
> Because from that META.yml you should (in theory) be able to extract the
> information for any other packaging system. rpm, dpkg, Sun, etc... Thus
> removing a Redhat bias in Perl and more importantly dumping any responsibility
> for p5p to maintain other people's packaging files.
>
> The authors of the rpm build tools will adapt, probably quite happily, as its
> much easier to read a META.yml file (its just a hash) than to maintain all
> the wacky heuristics necessary to automaticly produce a spec file from a
> raw Perl distribution. And I'm sure all the non-rpm based dists will be
> happy, too.
This seems like a far more reasonable approach, although it won't help me
too much for Solaris as I massage the perl distribution anyway (e.g.
removing non-relevant architecture files, splitting perl into 2 bits etc).
However in general I think a META.yml is a good idea.
Alan Burlison
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