From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Debian & gprinstall Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:44:17 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: vZYCW951TbFitc4GdEwQJg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:33356 Date: 2017-02-15T09:44:17+01:00 List-Id: On 14/02/2017 22:30, Simon Wright wrote: > I only want a set of switches that will make gprinstall do something > that works on Debian with the system compiler (no problem if using GNAT > GPL, of course, since the default setup is what GNAT GPL expects) and > doesn't trample over other software. I think a natural way would be if AdaCore added package Installer to the project file which could contain variables and commands to gprinstall. > Is the Fedora equivalent of the Debian Ada policy written up anywhere? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ada >> If indeed grpinstall were to care of the Linux target I would suggest >> to generate a proper project installation file, *.deb, *.rpm and use >> it in the standard system installer. > > But I'm not going to distribute binary library packages for any Linux > flavours. So I don't need to understand .deb, .rpm, etc etc. I just want > the _source_ packages to be easily installable. Sure, but there is no easy way, not any more. I mean, with all these multi-arch systems and cross compilers it becomes more and more complicated. So maybe in the end it would be easier to do it in a hard way... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de