Re: [Chicken-users] RedHat and Debian packages

[Harri Haataja]

On 14/01/07, Peter Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >Integrating these packages in Debian means that only Debian users
> > >benefit from this effort. My idea is to support as many distributions as
> > >possible, not only Debian. That way this effort benefits users of
> > >Adamantix,
> > >Ubuntu, Progeny, Knoppix, etc., etc. as well, not just users of Debian. And
> > >it has the following advantages for Chicken users:
> >
> > But sadly many of those may have a completely different (and possibly
> > ancient) version in themselves that the installer and possibly the
> > packager has to work around or clash with.
>
> Really, it is much simpler than you are suggesting. I will take
> Adamantix source packages and recompile them to binary packages for Debian
> Sarge, Debian Etch, Ubuntu Edgy, etc. That means that it will Just Work
> <tm>. If you have installed an old version of Chicken in Debian Sarge, then
> it will be replaced by the newer version from the Sarge repository on the
> Adamantix site. And you will have access to all the other packages as
> well.

Even if there's a package in Debian that depends (and is built
against) their chicken and it expects something else (abi
compatibility) than what the (better :) Adamantix package provides?
(As an example. There may be more oddities.)
And one or more of those systems may decide to go different ways with
some issues. The Adamantix repos will have to sort of keep up with
each.

For just installing chicken, tweaking the version numbers should be enugh, true.

> All you have to do is to add another line to /etc/apt/sources.list and then
> apt-get update. That's all there is to it! APT is really good at handling
> multiple repositories.

Yes. For example backports works quite neatly. Winehq a bit less so.

> > I agree (still) that the effort in adamantix is excellent. It would be
> > great if that could be the upstream or a complete sync into all the
> > mentioned distros' package collections.
> That would be great yes. If you know people who are willing to upload
> the stuff to DEB based distributions, then please let me know. I would
> be happy to assist them when I'm ready.

Sadly, I don't. If I was a packager/developer for one of those, I'd be
happy to go for it. Now, the current maintainers should probably be
contacted.

...
> Great! In that case we both want the same thing.
I think we've been in agreement about this before, here or freenode or
somewhere :)

I'm still waiting for a new release of Debian before I start
rearranging my current computers as I'd want to do one clean stable
install and it seems pointless to install the soon-to-be-old version
now if there's a new one coming. I might try the rc's in the meantime.
After that, I'll hopefully get to try these things for real again.

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