starting Fedora Server SIG

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 23:50:04 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 17:46 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> What does that mean for distributions that don't use RPM?

rpm is part of lsb requirements is it not?

> 
> >> If it does, I don't see much advantage over having to build in every  
> >> distribution,version environment in the first place.  And if not, then  
> >> how is it supposed to know about the dependencies you mentioned.
> > 
> > The LSB specifies an lsb_release program that you can use to determine
> > how LSB compliant the box is :
> > 
> > [manu at orient ~]$ /usr/bin/lsb_release
> > LSB Version:  :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
> 
> Gak.. something that specifies locations by purpose wants an information 
> file in /usr/bin?

it's not a text file, it's an application that will check your level of
lsb.

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Jesse Keating
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