[Openchrome-devel] Code is moving to git on freedesktop.org

James Simmons jsimmons
Mon Feb 6 12:43:41 PST 2012


> > Since debain packaging was being done do you have the debian directory
> > with config files for me to create debian package out of the box. We
> > should do this for rpms as well.
> >
> I can look at providing an rpm spec file, but I'm wondering if the 
> differences between the various rpm distros would make it convenient. 
> For example, this package is named xorg-x11-drv-openchrome in 
> Fedora/RHEL, x11-driver-video-openchrome in Mandriva/Mageia, 
> xorg-x11-driver-video-openchrome in OpenSUSE, etc... The same is true 
> for all the build dependencies packages' name. So an 'universal' spec 
> file would need a lot of macros to mask all the differences. Beside 
> that, while I feel comfortable with the Fedora/RHEL spec, I have no real 
> knowledge of the other rpm based distros' specifics. If other rpm 
> distros maintainers are around, I'd be glad to read your inputs.

Okay I didn't realize that the rpm sepc files were that non standardized. 
Is this the case for debian and ubuntu as well?





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