Posted by: WebCowboy
on December 21, 2004 06:44 AM
The standard is maintained by <A HREF="http://www.lanana.org/" title="lanana.org">LANANA</a lanana.org>. It is part of the Free Standards Group--the same folks who bring you the Linux Standards Base (LSB). IIRC if you want to make a cross-distro, fully LSB v2-compliant RPM package you must follow both the FHS and LANANA conventions.
By the way, a distro need only be able to properly install and run LSB packages to be LSB compliant, so a properly configured Debian-based system with RPM installed can be LSB compliant even though it has a full compliment of native debian packages installed which do not comply with FHS for example. Just as long as it plays nice with others. In fact the only LSB and FHS compliant distro that I am aware of is the LSB's own "sample implementation" which is pretty rudimentary and only meant as a reference/testing platform.
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Posted by: WebCowboy on December 21, 2004 06:44 AMBy the way, a distro need only be able to properly install and run LSB packages to be LSB compliant, so a properly configured Debian-based system with RPM installed can be LSB compliant even though it has a full compliment of native debian packages installed which do not comply with FHS for example. Just as long as it plays nice with others. In fact the only LSB and FHS compliant distro that I am aware of is the LSB's own "sample implementation" which is pretty rudimentary and only meant as a reference/testing platform.
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