On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 02:18:04PM +0100, steve donovan wrote:

> Ideally LR would respect packages installed by the system package manager,
> but this obviously not an easy thing to do for all supported platforms.
> among other things, versioning is particularly tricky.
> 

I develop tool to generate proper debian/  and build few "packaged" rock 
for ubuntu/natty.  Patch to LR (discussed in this thread) -- part of 
this work. It required to allow rocks installed in old fashion way use 
"system-wide" installed packages. Built packages have little manifest, 
inside /usr/lib/pk-rocks-tree/lib/luarocks/manifest.d/$package
Full manifest rebuilt in /usr/lib/pk-rocks-tree/lib/luarocks/manifest.d 
on any install/remove operation. Little "runtime support" care about it.

I believe this tool can be enchanced to support other major linux 
distributives (generate .spec for RPM for example).

PS All paths taken from "live" prototype, it not published yet. But we 
have plans to release it soon (when it will work fine for us, and look 
less ugly than now)

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