I would love, LOVE to see this happen so that I can both centralize builds and make certain that I get some packages always built with the same options, grab things from CURRENT when necessary, etc.
--bak On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:34:46PM -0500, Doug Henry wrote: > I don't have anything fancy, but I use packages from many of the openpkg > releases to create my own set of tools. For example, I might use gcc from > 2.4 release, many things from 2.5 release and some misc stuff from current. > I have some cpp code that reads a list of packages and pulls the xml chunk > from the 00INDEX.rdf file and adds it to a new xml tree. Basically works > like an xml filter, allowing me to combine the 00INDEX files to create a > custom release structure. I can package up my filter code if it sounds like > something you might be able to use. Adding my own rpms if pretty easy, I > just maintain my own 00INDEX.rdf file with the info for my custom packages > and modify the top-level 00INDEX file to point to it. You may want to bzip2 > -d 00INDEX.rdf.bz2 and see what they look like. The 00INDEX.rdf files don't > have to be compressed to use, so I usually just leave them as xml so I can > tweak easily. > > -later > > > On 3/24/06, Olaf Mersmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > * Ralf S. Engelschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060322 08:19]: > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > > > > Is there some installation management tool like 'yum' for dealing with > > > > rpm package dependencies? > > > > > > Yes, install the "openpkg-tools" package. It provides an "openpkg build" > > > tool which is able to fetch the RDF index files from the FTP service and > > > automatically resolve dependencies. Run "openpkg man build" for details > > > after installing "openpkg-tools". > > > > works well on a system which actually build source > > packages, but I've find it annoying, that it will install (and > > uninstall) build dependencies even if a current binary package is in > > the RPM repository. Is there a way to change this behavior or am I > > doing something seriously wrong? > > > > I'd also love to see a tutorial on the 'right' way to build custom > > source repositories. Specifically I'd like to know the 'proper' way to > > create an overlay to the official source repository. > > > > On another note: I noticed both yum and urpmi are in -current but > > neither would build out of the box for me on Debian 3.1 or Solaris > > 10. Is anyone using these? Is there any interest in getting them to > > work within the OpenPKG framework? > > > > -- Olaf > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org > > User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org > > ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
