Hi, Steve!
On 12.01.2011 13:22:42, steve donovan wrote:
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Ildar Mulyukov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 0. Aim: make Rocks available in a Linux distro (ALTLinux for the
moment)
To see if I understand: this is a tool for generating native packages
from rocks?
Right.
Sounds like a good initiative, especially when it can also do .deb
files and properly package the dependencies - or do these always
remain separate packages, which are brought in using the native
packager's facilities?
1. deb may be supported, but I don't plan to do it myself. RPM is a lot
simpler AFAIK.
I'd be glad if someone done that.
2. Deps have to be packaged already.
The normal workflow when packaging for a Linux distro is:
If pkgA needs pkgB for building up, then (a) pkgB should be
available already; (b) pkgA acquires the BuildRequires: pkgB.
3. LuaRocks *depends* transforms into (e.g. wsapi rock):
BuildRequires: luarocks(luafilesystem) >= 1.5.0
Requires: luarocks(luafilesystem) >= 1.5.0
That means that lfs is needed: _during build_ (luarocks needs to see
it) and _for installing_.
Hence you always need to package pkgB _before_ packaging pkgA.
Packaging is semi-automatic. lrimport creates most of SPEC-file. After
that you just need to do a few things described in README.
Might be interesting:
http://translate.google.kz/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Flists.altlinux.org%2Fpipermail%2Fdevel%2F2011-January%2F187583.html
Original russian:
http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/devel/2011-January/187583.html
Best regards,
--
Ildar Mulyukov, free SW designer/programmer
================================================
email: [email protected]
home: http://johan-notes.blogspot.com/
ALT Linux Sisyphus
================================================
_______________________________________________
Luarocks-developers mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
