On Sun, Sep 22, 2002, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> > I am the author of AutoRPM. I have just started playing around with
> > OpenPKG and I love it. I also think that AutoRPM could be a very useful
> > addition.
> >
> > I envision a simple configuration file that specifies a source directory
> > for packages (i.e. what OpenPKG release) and whether you want to use
> > binary packages or compile your own.
> >
> > You then have a file containing one package name per line. This is the
> > list of packages you would like installed. AutoRPM could then
> > automatically build (if necessary) and install or upgrade those packages
> > as needed.
> >
> > If this sounds useful, let me know by direct email and I'll investigate
> > further.
>
> I've still not looked at AutoRPM in detail, but because it's an RPM
> frontend and we still need such a thing since a longer time, we
> definitely should try it out for OpenPKG. Can you provide us an OpenPKG
> package for "autorpm" which contains a reasonable pre-configuration for
> OpenPKG in order to let us play a little but in-depth with AutoRPM in
> conjunction with OpenPKG?
I've now also looked into the manpages of AutoRPM: as far as I see it,
AutoRPM does not support fetching source RPMs and build binary RPMs. It
looks like AutoRPM just managed binary RPMs, right? If this is the case,
it is unfortunately mostly useless for OpenPKG because OpenPKG focuses
on source RPMs. The binary RPMs are just used for the intermediate step
of local installation or for bootstrapping and emergency situations.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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