Juergen Weigert wrote:
On Oct 25, 07 11:51:50 +0400, Nikolay Derkach wrote:
?? ??????, 25/10/2007 ?? 01:43 +0200, Pascal Bleser ??????????:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- When I look at the "Team" presented on http://rpm5.org I notice several people involved in QA for several distributions, but no one for openSUSE/SLE*. Lack of time, lack of interest, technical reasons ? There was a news at linux.com, it claimed that Novell was going to concentrate its efforts on RPMv4 development. "Novell has joined Red Hat in the rpm.org project, while Mandriva, cAos, and PLD have decided to work with Johnson's rpm5.org effort." [*]
Anyway it would be nice to hear the official proof/disproof from developers.
This article sounds strangely affirmative. I am not aware of any decision to ignore Jeff Johnson.
Me neither. But I'm not sitting on the same floor as MLS ;)
Actually, I remember that mls and jeff always have extensive conversations, whenever they meet. :-)
From what I can remember from IRL discussions with Jeff is that the main goals of RPM 5 were actually to put the disparate and parallel efforts of the different distributions back in common. Which is why I'm wondering Novell/SUSE isn't involved.
Anybody to set up an rpm5 buildservice repo?
SUSE does have its specific ways to use RPM that differ from other distributions, most notably not using arch coloring but -32bit subpackages instead (for biarch) [1]. I don't know how far it translates into RPM codebase patches or just conventions. Might be quite tricky to have a properly functioning RPM 5.x for openSUSE somewhere if it requires the former, especially if they're not merged and properly integrated by upstream. [1] not that I'm saying it's bad -- obviously, openSUSE is light years ahead of almost all other distributions in terms of biarch support so.. it can't be that bad ;) cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser@skynet.be> <guru@unixtech.be> _\_v http://www.fosdem.org http://opensuse.org