Kayvan> If you have earlier Redhat releases installed, you can just
Kayvan> get the lyx-1.03-1.src.rpm file and do ``rpm --rebuild
Kayvan> lyx-1.03-1.src.rpm'' and that should build an RPM linked
Kayvan> against your system's libraries.
Jean-Marc> I'm not sure that earlier redhat releases can read rpm
Jean-Marc> 3.0.1 files...
Of course. They would have to have upgraded to RPM 3.0.1 before they
could rpm --rebuild from my packages.
Kayvan> These RPMs also install all the included LaTeX files in a
Kayvan> place that tetex expects to see them and runs texhash on
Kayvan> install.
Jean-Marc> Did you make them with the lyx.spec found in the
Jean-Marc> development directory or did you make your own. Mate Wierdl
Jean-Marc> did a pretty good job of assembling that, I believe.
I rolled my own before I noticed the ones in the development
directory. I think mine is a simpler spec file, and has a couple of
advantages (all of which could be incorporated into the lyx.spec in
development/):
1) Installs everything under /usr rather than /usr/local per RedHat
standard practice.
2) Simpler installation process.
3) Installs the LaTeX files in the texmf directory structure and runs
texhash.
I've included the spec file here.
Jean-Marc> I would be really nice to have one rpm-master who would be
Jean-Marc> responsible for producing rpms (both redhat 5.0 and 6.0)
Jean-Marc> and make sure that they are updloaded to lyx site (with
Jean-Marc> corresponding xforms rpm) and to redhat contrib
Jean-Marc> site. Currently, the situation is a bit sketchy.
Jean-Marc> So Kayvan, Pierre-Henri, Mate, which one of you could do that?
At this point, I can only produce RH 6.0 RPM files. So, if someone
else wants to do the whole thing, I'd be happy. On the other hand, we
can coordinate things in such a way that I do RH6.0 files and someone
else does 5.X RPMS, but even with that scheme, we should all use the
same spec file.
Also, things get a bit hairy if you try to do the packaging for the 3
or 4 different variants of RedHat (4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0) and the two
different brands of rpm (2.5.x and 3.0.x). At some point, we have to
just encourage folks to upgrade their RPM (rpm-3.0 will work on all
the various RH versions).
So, what do you folks want to do?
---Kayvan
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