[lug] February 14th talk?

[Scott A. Herod]

This is what the EPM packages purports to do.
(http://www.easysw.com/epm/)
However, I've been unable to get it to create anything but a "portable"
archive.  ( Basically a shell script on top of a tarball. )

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> I would like a tool that integrates all the other tools. Those
> distributors that have solved their own distro problems create
> differences that are hard to deal with if you run from a different
> platform. The tool I am thinking of would NOT be a packaging tool, but
> instead a GOOD front end that has a meta-packaging language which could
> be adapted via plugins to package in each of these different distributor
> formats, using their tools. Think of it as a way to seamlessly integrate
> completely different tools using a single description. A module would be
> used that has enough intelligence to know what to do for a given format,
> e.g., it might have a module that defines Mandrake rpm formats and
> Redhat, as well as Debian, and "do the right thing" using their
> particular tools. If names or locations had to be relocated, it would
> have an ability to do so, or at least make a suggestion, and save the
> details of alterations for each platform. I would not want to write such
> a tool for any other platform than Linux, but it would probably be easy
> to take a modular tool like this and have it work elsewhere. Think of it
> as a convenient and easy-to-use (the hard part) preprocessor to
> packaging tools.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
>