Re: rpm dependencies failure

Quoting "Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <[email protected]>:
> El vie, 13-02-2004 a las 13:17, Eric Sandall escribió:
> 
> > I left the binary distros because of constant problems like this. ;)
> 
> Yes, there are no distro-agnostic packages left right?
> 
> I wanted to start a "How to make RPMs for any distro" web page.  I have
> a couple tips myself.  Does anyone know of any strategies or tricks in
> composing a spec file for a distro-agnostic RPM target?  I could
> incorporate them into a simple web page for that purpose.
> 
> > 
> > -sandalle

Well, there's always just using the source tarballs of the package, but then the
files installed won't be tracked. Slackware can do this for you, along with the
source-based distributions (Source Mage, Lunar, Sorcerer, Gentoo, Rock, etc.),
but the problem with this approach is it takes longer to install, since you
have to wait for the package to compile, instead of just copying already-built
binaries over.

I've never made a .spec file, but you could probably just look at the ones
offered and modify them to follow the FHS[0] and LSB[1], but you'll still have
the problem of needing the exact versions of the libraries installed (unless
you build everything statically, which would fix this problem, but make all the
binaries larger).

-sandalle

[0] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/
[1] http://www.linuxbase.org/

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