Rami Michael wrote:

Hi All,

I have been looking around about packaging applications on linux. Opensuse uses rpm and many others use .deb. However, in all honestly, I think this is one area where linux is sorely lacking. The RPM specfile just seems atrocious to me, however, there does not seem to be a good alternative. I know there are a couple of projects out there that use distro agnostic install tools like auto package but those break the "dependency structure" of such things as the rpm database if you install something outside of it.

What have some of you done in the past? I don't see a real good alternative here...

rpm works for all - those that don't use rpm can use alien to convert to deb or tarball. I've installed rpms on debian this way. Feel free to offer enhancement patches if rpm is not to your liking, but I find it quite workable, And there are tools which will automagically generate an rpm package for you, if you don't like getting into the details. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org