On Monday, June 16, 2014 02:39:35 PM Pierre Labastie wrote:
> Le 16/06/2014 14:23, Alice Wonder a écrit :
> > On 06/16/2014 05:03 AM, Baho Utot wrote:
> >> On 06/16/2014 02:55 AM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> It is possible to build RPM for lfs but it requires some effort, and
> >>> then once built you basically have to rebuild every package in LFS
> >>> with RPM or else RPM dependencies are never met.
> >> 
> >> Building LFS with rpm requires little to no effort.  All one needs is
> >> the following packages
> >> zlib, nspr, nss, popt, readline, elfutils and rpm.  You DO NOT have
> >> to rebuild a single package.
> >> You are talking non-sense.
> > 
> > Well if you want to install everything with --nodeps then you don't
> > have rebuild stuff, but then what's the point?
> 
> I think the principle is to build rpm and its deps in chapter 5, so that
> you build the whole of chapter 6 with rpm using spec-files. What deps
> you put in your specs is a matter of convenience.
> 
> OTOH, maybe "nonsense" is slightly exagerated ;-)
> 
> Pierre

Added deps in the spec files are only needed for installing "using the rpms 
built" onto multiple systems.  And then it's not a matter of necessity. Only 
ease of use issue.


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