On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Kayvan Aghaiepour Sylvan wrote:
>
> 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?
The installation of LyX's own LaTeX packages sound very good to me.
On the other hand, as I said before, I like installation on
/usr/local, particularely since it was packages I build myself, so
I don't considere them really official packages.
I use rpm version 2.5.5, and will be maintaining that even if I
upgrade to 6.0/rpm 3.0 another redhat that run beside the current one
on my box.
I feel comfortable to maintain for a while "old" stuff.
For sure, I agree it would be a good thing to use same lyx.spec file.
Regards.
PH
>
> ---Kayvan
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>
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