Conforming to the LSB?

[Auke Kok]

On 02/12/2011 06:37 AM, Duncan Gibson wrote:
> We have CentOS boxes at work, mainly to avoid problems with commercial
> software that is officially supported on RedHat. The latest release of
> one of these packages has LSB 4.0 conformance as a system requirement.
>
> I was vaguely aware of the LSB, but had not followed its progress, and
> was surprised at how much information there is on certification, etc at
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/lsb and at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base
>
> Does anybody have experience with the LSB? How well does Lunar conform?
> And what does that mean anyway when it's the users who are in control?
> Is it something that Lunar should be looking at?

for some parts it makes sense (location of stuff, FHS etc).

for some parts it does not - for instance, LSB requires rpm.

Auke