On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:47:30PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Monday 24 October 2005 20:07, Robert McGwier wrote: > > KD7LMO has excellent instructions on how to build to a non global > > libraries, etc. This prevents disruption of things that depend on the > > base install versions. I know, it finally took a reinstall to > > straighten my mess out. > > While on the surface this seems to be a good idea, I have enough experience > with these sorts of things to know that it is a bad idea from a > maintainability standpoint. Been there, done that with PostgreSQL; > maintained the RPMset for five years as a result. And while I don't want to > belittle the effort put into those instructions (they do work well, after > all), I do want to point out that many people simply think that's too much > effort. They want the Regular Package Tools to Just Work.
Lamar, Perhaps after we get the 2.6 tarballs ready to go, you could take a shot at creating the spec files and anything else we might need to build RPMs. I'm not sure how to handle dependencies where the dependency has a different *name* on different distributions. Perhaps you've run into this and have a solution. I'd like to have RPMS for SuSE 9.3 (x86 and x86_64), Mandrake 10.1, Mandriva 2006, and FC 4 for starters. With Ramakrishnan covering Debian, this would give us good coverage. Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
