On May 21, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Bernard Li wrote:
Perhaps it would make sense to maintain the RPMs for different
distroes separately - i.e. have Requires for Red Hat like systems and
not for Mandrake systems.� I checked the Requires for the 'official'
LAM RPM for Fedora systems and they have explicit requires for libaio,
libaio-devel and libaio.so.1, see:
�
http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/devel/i386/lam-7.1.1
-3.i386.html
We *do* maintain different RPMs for different distros.
I think what you meant to say was that we should maintain different
.spec files for different distros. I am against this. We already
maintain a different .spec file for OSCAR vs. the normal LAM/MPI
.specfile, and it's a real PITA. I don't want to add *more* unique
.spec files to the mix (and therefore have to maintain all of them).
P.S. Actually, can't you add some code in the SPEC file to only add
the Requires if it's a Red Hat like system?
It's not just if it's a RH system -- it's whether the system has libaio
or no (having configuration tests based on the type/version of the
system is almost always a Bad Idea; it is far better to test for the
specific behavior and/or characteristics that are in question --
thereby leading to future portability to unforseen systems). Whether a
system has libaio or not is determined by LAM's configure -- I don't
know how that would be propagated back to the .spec file (because, by
definition, we're already building the RPM).
I can imagine an elaborate system that looks for libaio and builds a
.spec file for that system, but that a) is a PITA, and b) won't work
for simple "rpmbuild --rebuild lam...src.rpm".
--
{+} Jeff Squyres
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