Hi,
i would like to gave a short update.
I stumbled over problems using a downloaded epm 4.2
(http://www.epmhome.org), build and install it on a Fedora 16 system
(rpm based).
The epm call failed to build the rpm packages. It seems that epm
triggers /bin/rpm with some parameters that are not accepted. I don't
understand why at the moment.
I expect also problems on other systems (e.g. FreeBSD, solaris, ...). To
move forward for now i plan to go back to use the version 3.7 of epm and
apply our patches.
The plan is to handle it similar to dmake and investigate to a later
time in more detail into the packaging process. I assume there is still
some room for improvements ones the process is understand completely.
But at the moment i would like to focus and to move forward with the IP
clearance. Means epm is only a build tool and not part of a binary
release or a source release.
The idea is to download the source directly from the homepage and apply
our patches and use it. Alternatively epm can be specified directly with
the configure switch -with-epm.
Any opinions or ideas. I highly appreciate any useful idea that help us
to move forward.
Juergen
On 11/16/11 3:36 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
On 11/15/11 5:00 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
i am currently trying to build with a system available epm tool. And i
am right now building on a Ubuntu 11.10 with epm 4.2. Does anybody have
built with a system epm on a Linux system?
a short update on this topic. I was able to build an office on an Ubuntu
11.10 using the system epm tool 4.2.
With disabling a packagepool process in instsetoo_native the build
finished and i got my deb packages. The difference compared to an
earlier build is that the package names has changed a little bit and
that i have directories with the same name in the .../DEPS folder which
were probably the base for the packages. But that is a minor issue i
would say.
Anyway the installed office works and i have not yet identified a real
problem. But that was to easy and i expect more problems on other
platforms. Solaris (that i can't build) and a rpm based Linux system, ...
I am no expert in this packaging area on all the different systems and
may be we lose the relocation feature or something else. So if anybody
has deep knowledge with epm or packing of deb or rpm packages and is
interested to help, please contact me. Any kind of help is appreciated.
Juergen
