Documentation Team/Obsolete/Services Wrap native packages HOWTO

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Introduction

The purpose of this Guide is describing how to simplify process of usage, by activity developers, packages that are not included to Sugar Platform but well packaged to various GNU/Linux distributions.

Detailed description

To use native packages, they should be wrapped into services. Such services are lightweight and contain only proper information about native packages. Also having service wrappers let us collect all distro specific information in one place, because various GNU/Linux distributions could have different names for the same upstream application.

In according to http://distrowatch.com/, there are several distributions whose names could be mentioned in service. It's a top 100 of primal distributions for 2009 year. In most cases theirs names will be the same in all derivate distributions:

Popularity Name/Packages database Package manager Sugar support
2 fedora RPM (yum)
5 debian DEB
6 mandriva RPM (urpmi)
7 puppy PET
10 arch Pacman
13 slackware TXZ
38 moblin RPM
40 frugalware FPM (TAR.BZ2)
41 pardus PiSi
74 alt RPM (APT)
89 turbolinux RPM
91 crux TAR.GZ
96 linuxconsole LCM
99 yoper RPM

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