Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (140 mails)

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 26, Stanislav Brabec wrote:

> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
> > > > Please read again what I wrote. For a distribution/distributor
> > > > several separate subpackages are the right way to go.
> > > > For a Redistributor of one product, one RPM is what customers
> > > > expect.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure there's a distinction. From the point of view of a customer
> > > of the re-distributor, they are the distributor, just as SUSE/Novell are
> > > for their present customers.
> >
> > The use case is here that a company likes to create their own custom
> > branding.  For them it's easier to put all branding in one single RPM
> > and supply that instead of building let's say 10+ different packages
> > with e.g. two files in each.
> >
> > For us as distributor with different people working on different
> > packages, it makes sense to split them up.  But for somebody that wants
> > to change all branding, a single RPM might make more sense.
>
> Imagine a security version update. New version may require branding
> update.

That's a nogo for a Enterprise distribution.
 
> All available updated (standalone) branding packages conflict with
> redistributor's bundle.
>
> It implies, that security update may trigger immediate action needed
> from the redistributor: update of the branding bundle.
>
> Without bundles, redistributor action is still required, but missing
> branding will not hard-block security update.

Depending on trademarks, contracts or so, it will hard-block a 
security update.

Especially the trademark problematic can lead to big problems even on
openSUSE.

  Thorsten

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