Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:04, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > creating a mysql-4.1 pkg from scratch. Or what if you want the same
> > version that Sun shipped, but just need it compiled with different
> > options? That's trivial on Linux distros, not so trivial on Solaris....
>
> Thats what the SUNWmysqlS package is for, it is intended to
> be almost equivalent to the source rpm. However rpm is both a build
> and package system the SVR4 package system isn't.
I don't see anything in rpm that could not be handled via the pre and
postinstall scripts that are part of a SVR4 package.
> The README.sfw file in the package does tell you how configure
> was run.
This only contains a rough description in prosa but no build system.
For GPL'd software, it violates the GPL as the build scripts are
not available.
Jörg
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