[Portland] In process? Out of process? And more...

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 05:31:51AM -0800, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> 
> >> Over at LSB we've got some prototype stuff along these 
> >general lines...
> >
> >Interesting, does it follow the freedesktop.org specs Dan posted?
> 
> It's not at that stage since the fdo specs were not in the
> lsb scope at the time this was prototyped, but those are
> something that will be referenced by lsb-desktop and so
> will be something that wants to get tested for lsb eventually
> anyway.

Gotcha

> >> intended to some day be a "package install tester": have a bunch
> >> of combinations of things which are tested in various install/
> >> uninstall sequences, with validation that stuff got to the
> >> right places, removes cleanly, etc..
> >
> >URL?
> 
> what's been checked in is at
> http://cvs.gforge.freestandards.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/tests/misc/pkgins
> t/?cvsroot=lsb
> and isn't a whole lot, less (and older) than I remembered.
> Mainly oriented to testing how bits of the spec for the 
> package format are handled.  Looks like I was probably
> remembering conversations about where we should go with it
> more than the actual code.

Ah, thanks, yes I see what you mean.  This appears to be a test for the
RPM package format, whereas I think Dan's proposal was more geared
towards the *effects* of the packaging system - did it install things to
the correct places, register itself correctly, etc.

Bryce