On May 28, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Bob Gobeille wrote: > > On May 27, 2009, at 10:55 PM, Jeff Sheltren wrote: > >> On May 15, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Jeff Sheltren wrote: >> >> The only build requirement that I can see which isn't in EL5 base or >> in EPEL is libextractor-devel. I rebuilt a fedora libextractor >> package in order to get the fossology build working -- if you feel > > > Would it be a good idea reduce the overall build complexity by > splitting each agent into its own install package? For example, > libextractor is only used by the pkgmetagetta module, which most > people probably don't care about anyway. > > We are probably going to have optional modules (agents + UI) in the > future anyway. We have talked about this in the past but perhaps we > need to do something about it. IF this is a good idea, the first > thing I would do is make pkgmetagetta optional. Optional modules is > also seems like a good way to introduce most new functionality since > the new code will probably be less stable than the base code. > > Bob Gobeille
Without looking too closely at the fossology build setup, I imagine this would be pretty easy to do inside the RPM itself. We can create sub-packages for the various modules, and dynamically add the buildrequires on ie. libextractor only when building a module where it's needed. Will this require changes to the Makefile system that's in place now? Or could I do something like --without-pkgmetagetta/-- with-pkgmetagetta type of argument depending on how I want to build? Does this imply that fossology will need a auto-conf type script? Regardless of how we split the package/modules up, I think it makes sense to get the needed dependencies accepted into some main repos (EPEL in the case of RHEL/CentOS) just for general ease of installation (and build for those who want to build themselves). I'll take that on for libextractor, which as far as I can tell is the only thing missing for RHEL-5 at this point. It's already in Fedora, so it's a non-issue for those wanting to run fossology on Fedora. -Jeff _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list fossology@fossology.org http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
