On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:53:58PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Une traduction extrêmement approximative qui sonne moins bien "pépites > d'absurdités considérées comme des évidences" C'est joli en tout cas ;-). Pas forcement au niveau du fond, mais au moins de la forme ;-) > > Once again I am open to new stuff, but I haven't seen anything that > > would be as simple and effective as building statically (in the case of > > specific scientific apps I am referring to, of course). > > You have two missing bits: > 1. a nice create-autotooled-rpm-for-dummies environment > 2. a deployment framework > > You have only to look at koji to realise the technical basis for 2. is It is not what koji looks like from the perspective of a fedora contributor, but maybe once there is more doc it will appear more clearly... > already there, and IIRC there are products on the market that do the > package as payload thing. > > 1. is harder and is in its infancy today. That's why package systems > with broken dependency engines sell and rpm/deb don't. It is certainly something different from rpm/deb since it should be doable as a user. > But if you don't get a package feed up people do manual deployments, > slowly rot the cluster and make OS upgrades impossible. static is just a > way to partially hide the rot. That is not the way I see the usefulness of static linked apps. They are for immediate consumption in my use case. -- Pat -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
