Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Alan Horkan wrote:

> Supporting Autopackage wouldn't adversely affect or favour any
> particularly distribution and it would in fact produce packages widely
> usable by a whole variety of distributions.  There is no Autopackage based
> distribution yet (nor is there likely to be).
>  
Note that autopackage is just another package management system.  The 
only reason that it doesn't favour any particular distro is that no one 
uses it, as opposed to other package management systems.

> I think there is some benefit to having developers in control of their
> packages because they sure aren't going to want to have to maintain
> mulitple different RPMs and they would insist on a greater level of
> compatibility from RPM bases distributions.
>  
The issue of distribution differences is not related to use of RPM.  If 
you want to integrate well with the underlying OS, you'll probably need 
some distro specific changes.

There are issues where distros have used different package naming, which 
would've been nice to avoid, but that is certainly not the only issue.

> A Gnome LiveCD full of Autopackages could be very interesting.
>  
For a live CD, the package management system is not really that 
interesting.  The software is all installed on the system image you boot 
into.

James.