Re: Seeking recommendations wrt. target-specific packages

2016-06-17 Thread J.T. Conklin
Thanks Paul for your thoughtful response. You gave me a lot of useful options to investigate. Paul Wise writes: >> We produce network equipment devices, and the project to be released is >> a framework to configure and manage the data plane. > > FYI that sounds a bit related to several Debian d

Re: Seeking recommendations wrt. target-specific packages

2016-06-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:59 AM, J.T. Conklin wrote: > I apologize for my earlier explanation. Unfortunately I still have to > be somewhat guarded, as there are folks who think the most important > part of this project is the press release that will announce this to the > world, fully formed, lik

Re: Seeking recommendations wrt. target-specific packages

2016-06-14 Thread J.T. Conklin
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Paul Wise Wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:58 AM, J.T. Conklin wrote: > > Before I go ahead with this, I'd appreciate some feedback on this > > approach. Should we plan to use "distribution" or "component" for > > target-specific packages. Or are we completely off

Re: Seeking recommendations wrt. target-specific packages

2016-06-08 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Although we do have a unsolved issue due to the ambiguity when there are more than one concrete implementations in a package repository. This means we can't simply install high-level application packages and have apt-get resolve all their dependencies automatically, as the packages for the specif

Re: Seeking recommendations wrt. target-specific packages

2016-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:58 AM, J.T. Conklin wrote: > Before I go ahead with this, I'd appreciate some feedback on this > approach. Should we plan to use "distribution" or "component" for > target-specific packages. Or are we completely off track and we > should be considering an entirely differe

Re: Seeking recommendations wrt. target-specific packages

2016-06-07 Thread Ben Finney
j...@acorntoolworks.com (J.T. Conklin) writes: > We are planning on open sourcing and providing a binary repository for > many of these packages in the next month or so; and I would like to > deliver something that "makes sense" to Debian users/administrators. Thank you for taking the time to pla

Seeking recommendations wrt. target-specific packages

2016-06-07 Thread J.T. Conklin
I tried asking this on the deity list and didn't get any bites, I'm hoping I'll have better luck with mentors. At my workplace, our product is built from several dozen target- independent packages, with a small number of target-specific packages. I use the word "target" instead of platform as our