Henne Vogelsang a écrit :
Hi,
On Sunday, August 20, 2006 at 09:21:18, jdd wrote:
I would make clear some things before going further. I ask
only for short (3 lines max :-) answers, the long one being
probably in the doc,
* it seems that small applications, nearly obvious to setup
should be easy to package. Is that true or did I miss an
important thing (in that case my goal is out of reach)
Yes. The thing is not "small" applications but "simple" applications.
Scripts for instance (like in your example) dont require much.
ok. I will investigate this
* I don't really understand why a package that compile
smoothly with ./configure, make, make install can't be
packaged on the fly. At first glance, the reqirements are
the same.
They are not. A configure/make/make install cycle that you run on your
system is for prepares the application for your system exclusively. With
packaging you "optimize" the configure/make/make install cycle for as
much systems as you can.
yes/no. if the ./configure(...) works on my system and on
most systems, it's because somebody made the spec visible
somewhere for theses apps. when running ./configure, I'm
warned for any dependency lack exactly in the same way as
"rpm" do. Of course, I understand than rpm asks for more
data, but couldn't the spec file be built on the basis of
the configure data? I mean, most doc I read so far say "spec
is a recipe" and seems to say one must build it by hand each
time. It may prove necessary if the application you are
working with was never packaged anywhere, but I wont do so
and I don't know of many packages that are not already
packaged in some way, so the problem is more fixing the spec
to make them openSUSE compliant than making them from scratch.
jdd
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