>>>>> Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm leaving Thursday on a vacation, and will be back a week from > Friday. I'll stick the latest foomatic tarball on the laptop and see > if I get inspired by the beach sand.
Cool. It may be instructive to look at the RPM spec [ Till, please send him your spec, it doesn't seem to be in CVS ]. The main headaches are these: - Dependencies on a million Perl modules. I think these are mostly done and in unstable. - System dependencies defined in Defaults.pm. Originally the default Defaults.pm was based on my potato system, but the defaults may be a tad Mandrakish these days... - The C helper program. This just means that it's not a noarch as it used to be. - The /var bit. Last I knew, the library cached computed data in a parallel cache tree next to the source data. Since that stuff really belongs in /var, I think we made those locations symlinks into /var/foomatic/blah rather than adjusting the library to do the right thing. - No real version numbering or releases. The bulk of foomatic is a set of constantly updated data files. There are also external datasets that people can add to their installation (from gimp-print, omni, etc). I think Manfred's package was using a timestamp or something. Oh - you get 100 bonus points if you can make the various spoolers in Debian automagically convert configurations when you switch spoolers. Foomatic has all that logic now, thanks to Till... -- Grant Taylor - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/ Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
