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. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
