On Thu, Aug 15, 2002, Miles Egan wrote:
> [...]
> One more thing we'd like: we'd like to be able to specify that some packages are
> only buildable/installable on certain platforms. I know rpm supports this, but
> is openpkg designed to assume that every package must build on every platform?
<grin> Yes, that's OpenPKG "cross-platform" focus. Every _has to_ build
on every officially supported platform, i.e., it is not acceptable to
have an OpenPKG package which just works (by design or intention) on a
single platform. All packages inherently have to work on all platforms
(plus/minus the usual brokeness because of vendor source brokeness, of
course).
But you can nevertheless build a sub-set of packages just for a
particular platform: the src2make.pl scripts generates a Makefile
individually for the SRPMs it finds. It does _NOT_ assume that it gets
_all_ OpenPKG-CURRENT packages. It's fully acceptable to build binary
RPMs just for a subset of packages. The only point you have to be aware
of is that the selected subset has to be self-consistent, i.e., it has
no dependencies to other packages not part of the subset.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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