From: "Mike MacCana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 05:40, Oscar Plameras wrote: > > I hardly use 'rpm' to build components and applications because > > I follow the latest versions of 'apache', 'php', 'mysql', 'cyrus-sasl', > > 'ldap', 'postfix', and 'horde' and I cannot be bothered building rpms. > > That's a very interesting comment, and one that's pretty common. IIRC, > all the apps you've mentioned use GNU autoconf. Since RPM is designed > around building from source (including macros that run configure and > make with options to specify correct FHS locations, install files in a > temporary dir for later capture for includion in a package, and compile > with particular options) it shouldn't take you more than a minute to > package any of these applications from source. > > I'm not a Linux expert by any means, but I find it trivially easy to > package just about anything - I build a lot of applications from source, > and like being able to install them in (what I percieve to be) the > correct fashion - installableon other systems, uninstallable, with > upgrading and querying and verification and all that other useful stuff. > > I suggest you (and most Linux users who know how to build from source > unpackaged, but not create RPMs) take a look at RPM again. It really > isn't that hard. >
You described it so easy to build components using 'rpms'. Are you able to post a packaging script that is readily modifiable with building 'HORDE' and all its components ? As you probably know, 'HORDE' with all its components are dependent on all the applications that I mentioned plus more. I have shell (not rpms) scripts that I kick off each time I want to build 'HORDE' with each newer versions as they become available. I would be most grateful if you can and thanks. Oscar Plameras http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
