On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Aubin Paul wrote: > I'm not sure about the RPM distributions, but I know that getting > dependencies handled on Debian is fairly straightforward. Is there > some way of making a "dependency" package in RPMs or something, or > depending on RPMs from rpmfind? >
I thought one of Krister's rationale for the runtime is to make sure that the versions of dependent software are consistent. This may not be easy to accomplish in RPM environments (upgrading python to a new major version without breaking existing dependencies in the distro is probably going to be a major pain, for example). RPM will check for dependencies, and tell you what packages FOO it needs to install BAR, but it won't go and download it for you automatically. There may be tools available that provides this autodownload feature though. The problem with Redhat is that a lot of the freevo dependency packages are not provided by the default distro, so folks will have to scrounge for them from somewhere (not from another distro). It's not easy to install e.g. a Mandrake RPM on a Redhat distro due to package naming and different packaging conventions. To fully support this all the supporting packages (including patched versions, e.g. SDL) would have to be provided along with the core freevo RPMs, which is almost as bad as what we're doing with freevo-runtime at this point. (Well, python is included with Redhat, though not all the python modules we need are available). If we could make the runtime build process fullproof (Rob is having lots of problems everytime he tries to release a new runtime), then it could be automated into a SPEC file to generate the runtime RPM package which would be used by RPM-based distros. T.C. ---- Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) School of Computer Science, Univ. Science Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3888 x 3617 NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-E Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcw_gpg-20030322.asc F'print : DCF2 B9B2 FA4D 1208 AD59 14CA 9A8F F54D B2C4 63C7 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
