2010/7/22 Olaf van der Spek <olafvds...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Freddie Witherden > <fred...@witherden.org> wrote: >> I'll try adding a check for `rpmbuild` to my CMakeLists before enabling RPM >> packages. This seems quite a nice solution as users should always get TGZ >> and DEB and RPM if possible. From what I gather producing DEBs has no >> associated dependencies. > > Won't the deb generator soon have a dependency on the tool to generate > the dependencies list?
Yes it should, if ever the proposed patch http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=10292 is merged as-is. My opinion concerning DEB and RPM is that it seems better to rely on specific tools (dpkg-xxx and rpm/rpmbuild) if we want to get "proper" package. Trying not to depends on those tools lower the possibility of the produce package (like lacking auto-dependencies) and/or produce bad behaving package. We may even think that building an rpm on a debian based host is a non-sense even if rpm tools can be installed on debian. Note that if ever ones lacks some package format support alien may be the tool of choice: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien even if alien itself relies on supporting tools... but now I'm really goiing off-topic ...stopping here. -- Erk Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
