Re: rpm for autobuilder and familiar

On 2-Jan-2003, Jamey Hicks wrote:

>One of the things that the autobuilder needs is a good dependence 
>manager/walker.

The autobuilder has dependency checking.  See, for example, the dependency
graph for the "toolchain" distribution:

  http://autobuild.handhelds.org/dep.php?queue=toolchain-arm3-unstable

>The latest RPM library includes such a thing.

Code reuse is always nice, but dependency graph walking is a pretty small
and simple part of the autobuild Perl script, so I wonder if there's much
benefit from replacing it with the RPM library's mechanism.

>Since Linux Standards Base mandates RPM support, moving to RPM from .deb
>format is probably something we'll have to do anyway.

Yep.  All package-type-specific autobuilder code is in a separate module,
Pkg.pm, which currently supports Debian packages and GNU-style tarballs.
Adding RPM support should be quite straightforward.

Nick
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