[opensource-dev] Linux

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

On 2017-01-30 12:41 , Nicky D. wrote:
>> For the time being, we expect that it will be based on the current system,
>> modified to use system libraries rather than autobuild packages that build a
>> static executable (some packages will be used in our builds for proprietary
>> components).  I'm not sure that answers your question...
>>
> This is the old Squeeze based Debian?
No, we're going to leapfrog to Jessie for this.

>> Granted, *.deb is a much used package manager for debian and derived
>> distros. Will any other distro package managers be developed? I assume the
>> answer is no so, will OS developer submissions of other package manager
>> formats be accepted?
>>
>> Let's worry about getting one to work... if we're wildly successful with
>> that and there's a good reason to do something else, we'll discuss it.
> I'm not sure yet what to make out of this change, as we possible need
> to see a deb to see
> about some of the consequences. Just a few thoughts:
>
> - Standalone is afaik broken since a long time, for example there is
> missing FindXXX.cmake
> files for various packages.
>
> - As far as I know are there no system packages for (at least) glod,
> colladadom, breakpad and cef.
>
> - Some distributions only ship openjpeg2, not 1.4 or 1.5 (for example
> I cannot find anything older than 2
> for Debian Wheezy). Possibly this can be worked around with non
> standard deb repositories in apt.conf.
>
> - Compiling the deb eg on Squeeze and trying to install it on
> something Wheezy based could lead to
> interesting results, due to the dependent packages from the Squeeze
> system being recorded in the deb.
> (Or compiling on Wheezy and installing on Jessie and so on).
>
> - VLC: Henri pointed out a few times, that the VLC api is not exactly
> stable between releases.
>
> - Boost will be interesting

Well, if it was easy it wouldn't be any fun, would it?

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