Allow ability to interchange package name across platforms

[parth-verma]

It is known and observed that package names may change across platforms hence it is ideal to maintain a mapping of sorts for common package names across platforms

[Manas-kashyap]

Would like to take this issue .

[meets2tarun]

@Manas-kashyap
Go ahead 👍

[Manas-kashyap]

A little bit guidance on how to do it , it would be great @xeon-zolt @gabru-md @meets2tarun .

[parth-verma]

This would require to account for version tags as well as even those may change across package managers.

[xeon-zolt]

puppet also do a similar thing like mew attached a slide explaining packages and puppet
https://www.slideshare.net/PuppetLabs/puppetcamp-45040039

[parth-verma]

So you are suggesting that this project should be abandoned?

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[xeon-zolt]

nope

[xeon-zolt]

@Party98 , @gabru-md created a map Now we need to solve the problem of maintaining the map by fetching packages name and mapping them

[parth-verma]

How will the map be handling versioning?

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