Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (192 mails)

[yersinia <yersinia.spiros@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 12:32:08AM +0200, Claudio Freire wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Paul Elliott
> > <pelliott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > First I will do the library. But then there is the data. The data is about 
> > > 60
> > > files not all of which will be wanted by all people. There may be ways of
> > > grouping but I am not sure. Perhaps one rpm per file. The Web page says:
> > > > For this extended timespan the ephemeris requires 32 Mbytes of ephemeris
> > > > files.
> > > ...
> > > My question is this is there a lowest common denominator rpm format that 
> > > can
> > > represent pure data (and a few text licensing files) and be understood by 
> > > all
> > > distros?
> > >
> > > How would you get the build service to produce such rpms?
> > >
> > > After you produced them how would you get the build service to serve them 
> > > for
> > > all rpm based distros?
> >
> > I have the same issue with my projects, which have ~300M of data which
> > isn't distro-dependant.
>
> Build a noarch RPM, without script usage and without special rpm requires.
And without "distro" specific  macro, without using rpm functionality
not upstream (not so simple for the average packager), .... BTW,
something very related was discussed
some years ago http://www.mail-archive.com/rpm-maint@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg00939.html
but
probably not really of distro interest, more interested in something
like branding and the like.
JMHO

 Ciao
 Elia
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