On Thu, Aug 15, 2002, Miles Egan wrote: > [...] > One more thing we'd like: we'd like to be able to specify that some packages are > only buildable/installable on certain platforms. I know rpm supports this, but > is openpkg designed to assume that every package must build on every platform?
<grin> Yes, that's OpenPKG "cross-platform" focus. Every _has to_ build on every officially supported platform, i.e., it is not acceptable to have an OpenPKG package which just works (by design or intention) on a single platform. All packages inherently have to work on all platforms (plus/minus the usual brokeness because of vendor source brokeness, of course). But you can nevertheless build a sub-set of packages just for a particular platform: the src2make.pl scripts generates a Makefile individually for the SRPMs it finds. It does _NOT_ assume that it gets _all_ OpenPKG-CURRENT packages. It's fully acceptable to build binary RPMs just for a subset of packages. The only point you have to be aware of is that the selected subset has to be self-consistent, i.e., it has no dependencies to other packages not part of the subset. Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]