[ILUG] Re: slackware (was: Esat ADSL)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Colm MacCarthaigh (colmmacc at Redbrick.DCU.IE):

> lsb support in Debian looks like it's going to be something that
> is apt-get installable, install some package and you get the
> neccessary tools. 

Package descriptions from the Debian "testing" branch (currently "Sarge"):

Package: lsb
Priority: extra
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 64
Maintainer: Chris Lawrence <lawrencc at debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.2-6
Depends: lsb-release, libgl1, xlibs, libz1, exim | mail-transport-agent,
at, bc, binutils, bsdmainutils, cpio, cron, file, libc6-dev | libc-dev,
locales, lpr, m 4, make, man-db, mawk | awk, ncurses-term, passwd, patch, 
procps, psmisc, rsync, alien (>= 8.00), python (>> 2.1), debconf (>= 0.5)
Conflicts: python (>> 2.3)
Filename: pool/main/l/lsb/lsb_1.2-6_all.deb
Size: 17770
MD5sum: 46776fd3e396d0f0e25793d009ea7df7
Description: Linux Standard Base 1.2 core support package
 The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) is a standard
 core system that third-party applications can depend upon.
 .
 This package provides an implementation of version 1.2 of the Linux
 Standard Base for Debian on the Intel x86 and PowerPC 32-bit
 architectures with the Linux kernel.  Future revisions of the
 specification and this package may support the LSB on additional
 architectures and kernels.
 .
 The intent of this package is to provide a best current practice way
 of installing and running LSB packages on Debian GNU/Linux.  Its
 presence does not imply that we believe that Debian fully complies
 with the Linux Standard Base, and should not be construed as a
 statement that Debian is LSB-compliant.


Package: lsb-release
Priority: extra
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 53
Maintainer: Joerg Jaspert <joerg at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.4-7
Filename: pool/main/l/lsb-release/lsb-release_1.4-7_i386.deb
Size: 8886
MD5sum: 7e6125411ae2b7cc1b47c4183248fc5d
Description: LSB release command
 The lsb-release command is a simple tool to identify the Linux
 distribution being used.
 .
 It is part of the LSB base system.



Package: lsb-rpm
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 1756
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: rpm
Version: 4.0.4-11
Depends: rpm
Filename: pool/main/r/rpm/lsb-rpm_4.0.4-11_i386.deb
Size: 756876
MD5sum: 4e46e6d0db421dd9ee544100ad52c37c
Description: Red Hat package manager for LSB package building
 This is a version of rpm built to create rpm v3 packages as used in the
 Linux Standards Base. You should need this package only if you are
 developing LSB packages; you do not need it to install or use LSB packages
 on Debian.
 .
 The binary is linked statically so it should be possible to use it
 in the restricted lsbdev environment.