Thomas Lotterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004, Simon Mudd wrote: > > Re, > > > > > I'm using Whitebox Linux (a RedHat Enterprise 3 clone) [...] > > I also tried to adjust the shtool [...] producing the following 2 files: > > > > openpkg-2.1.0-2.1.0.ix86-rhel3.0-ope.rpm > > openpkg-2.1.0-2.1.0.ix86-rhel3.0-ope.sh > > > > This installed [...] but binary rhel3 packages gave me an error [...] > > > please examine the content of the platform file (it has no newline). > Our reference machine reads: > > $ echo `cat /openpkg/etc/openpkg/platform` > ix86-any-rhel3
ok. I had not noticed this difference (was not sure what to look for to be honest). > PS: why do you fight so hard with binaries when sources work well? I had not found the "how to download and install a package" (with dependencies) in the OpenPKG documentation. Maybe I missed it. There are examples of doing the steps by hand, using /openpkg/bin/openpkg rpm --rebuild, .... /openpkg/bin/openpkg rpm -Uvh .... but I did not find the reference (or documenation) to the /openpkg/bin/openpkg build command and how to use it. rpm -ql openpkg-tools does not provide much information unless I read the perl source. I had thought it would simply be easier to download the binary packages (that's how yum/apt-get work), but it's true the openpkg build | sh idea works very similarly to FreeBSD's ports tree and is very clean. I only struggle with something if I don't understand how to do something and that was the problem I was facing. It seems that the "binary environment" is not really needed: the src.rpms are fine. I also think that when deploying to multiple machines it would be a waste of resources to build multiple times and in that case it would be nice to be able to download and install binary rpms automatically, even if these binary rpms are built on one source machine. I'll have to look at the openpkg build parameters to see if this is possible too. Thanks again for your help and time in answering my questions. Regards, Simon ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
