On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:23:09AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>My packages:
> cvs
> gdbm -- no changes
> gettext -- no changes
> jbigkit
> jpeg
> libpng
> ncftp -- no changes
> ncurses -- no changes
> popt -- no changes
> readline
> tiff
> unzip -- no changes
> wget
> xpm-nox
> zip -- no changes
> zlib -- no changes
>
>For the packages that do NOT indicate "no changes" -- see below. Most
>of the changes are in the requires: field. I've marked the current
>"requires:" entry with "cgf:". My version is marked "csw:".
>
>--Chuck
>
>cvs:
> cgf: ash cygwin perl tcsh zlib
>
> comments: well, perl isn't actually *necessary* for cvs itself, it's
>only used by a few additional scripts. Also, tcsh is not required at
>all. OTOH, the cygwin build of cvs requires gdbm. And crypt. And
>'pr.exe' which is part of textutils. Also, since the cvs source
>includes its own version of zlib, it doesn't really depend on the
>external zlib package.
I wonder why the RPM version is so skewed from what you are relaying here.
However, if some part of cvs needs perl to operate then this is a dependency.
>jpeg:
> cgf: ---
> csw: cygwin
> (category should be Graphics/Libraries, not miscellaneous)
This is a difference from RPM.
> sdesc: "A library of functions for manipulating JPEG image format files"
As is this.
My script didn't properly translate the jpeg -> libjpeg but I have rectified that.
I've made all of the changes you've mentioned. I still wonder why RPM got some
of them "wrong".
Thanks.
cgf
