Oscar A. Valdez wrote: > El jue, 05-10-2006 a las 07:57 -0600, Richard Megginson escribi?: > >> We are making progress. Note that the next major (i.e. not patch) >> release of the product will use discrete RPM packaging, and each >> discrete RPM will have a buildable SRPM. >> http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Discrete_Packaging >> > > Thanks for the info. > > 1) When do you expect the packages to be available? > Don't know. We are hoping to have a beta in the next couple of weeks. > 2) Will the FC5 packages conform to the FHS? > We have proposed this to the Fedora DS community. There has been much, much heated debate on both sides of this issue. Some people vehemently oppose FHS package, some welcome and encourage it. The Fedora DS developers are still trying to figure out a way to do what's right for the community. We can certainly make it easy to build your own package from source using either FHS or self-contained style packaging. The real problem is that it is very difficult to provide binary packages and documentation for both formats . . . -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3178 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20061005/02feee4f/attachment.bin