On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:05:11AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > 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? > 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.
This seems reasonable. What we'd probably do is build all the openpkg packages and then build additional custom packages for select platforms. Thanks. -- miles egan [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP/GPG Key 0x01F53D51 @ wwwkeys.us.pgp.net ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
