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RetroX

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Registered: 2009-10-17

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PKGBUILD for DEB and RPM?

I googled this and found this topic, but I'm unsure if anyone has done anything with this.  I think that it would be very useful, because several people use Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, and Fedora, and having a single PKGBUILD for all flavors of GNU/Linux would certainly be convenient.

Either way, if nobody's worked on it before, I might just have to go and mess with it myself, but I figured that I shouldn't bother if it's already been done.

Last edited by RetroX (2010-08-10 13:15:50)

karol

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Re: PKGBUILD for DEB and RPM?

http://freshmeat.net/projects/unipkg/ ?

Edit: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92239

Last edited by karol (2010-08-10 13:18:14)

RetroX

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Re: PKGBUILD for DEB and RPM?

Well, I clearly didn't Google well enough.

karol

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Re: PKGBUILD for DEB and RPM?

Well, I clearly didn't Google well enough.

I'm not sure if this is the thing you want, but in many cases you can't simply make a new package and throw it it any distro you wish as they tend to follow different conventions (naming files, initscripts etc.). Even if the package name is the same, it may include some patches in one distro and another ones in another.

RetroX

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Re: PKGBUILD for DEB and RPM?

Yeah, I realise that, but I still like how PKGBUILD operates; it's probably the easiest utility that I've found.  Even if multiple PKGBUILDs are required, it'll still be a lot easier.  Plus, I can always modify the actual unipkg script to fit what I want.

Last edited by RetroX (2010-08-10 13:29:31)