perfsonar development work

[Cesaroni Giovanni <>]

Hi,
Once you create an rpm package you can easily convert to a deb package 
(using alien).

Cheers,
Giovanni


Jochen Reinwand wrote:
> On Thursday 31 May 2007 13:18, Nicolas Simar wrote:
>   
> > This somehow means that pS would have to have such system for as many OS
> >   type as the one deployed (RedHat, Debian, etc).
> >     
>
> I'm not an RPM expert, but AFAIK it is normally possible to create a more or 
> less generic spec file, that only has to be compiled and packaged on 
> different target systems. Often you also just get one RPM for all 
> distribution.
> We should only support one or two distribution at all! RPMs or other formats 
> for other distributions can be provided by someone else. That's typical for 
> OpenSource: If you need it, just do it and provide your changes for others.
>
> But perhaps someone with more experience on RPM or similar package management 
> has a different view on that?
>
> greetings,
> Jochen
>
>   


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