On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 12:32:08AM +0200, Claudio Freire wrote:

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Paul Elliott wrote:

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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:

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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. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote:

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 12:32:08AM +0200, Claudio Freire wrote:

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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Paul Elliott wrote:

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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@lists.rpm.org/msg00939.html but probably not really of distro interest, more interested in something like branding and the like. JMHO Ciao Elia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org