Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-11 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thing obviously doesn't scale and in the long term we may end up reinventing a full blown package manager with dependency tracking, plus tools like apt for downloading and installing them. It seems to me that the ideal thing would be for Sun to go ahead and

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-11 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: This thing obviously doesn't scale and in the long term we may end up reinventing a full blown package manager with dependency tracking, plus tools like apt for downloading and installing them. I've spent a fair amount of time with both yum and apt and I fail

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-11 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, It seems to me that the ideal thing would be for Sun to go ahead and get around to releasing certain bits of the OpenSolaris tree under dual GPL/CDDL [..] If Sun wanted Linux to rip off Solaris code easily, they would have just released everything under the GPL right

Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
My activity reads RDF files and uses libraptor.so.1 to do that. Fedora does package this in the raptor.i386 RPM. This package is not installed on the Build 650 I'm using. I also see no way to specify RPM dependencies in a .xo nor a way that deployed XOs could be guaranteed to be able to get

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-10 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Asheesh Laroia wrote: I suppose I'll have to include a libraptor.so.1 in my own .xo's lib/ directory. Is the normal(ish) way to do this by just unpacking the RPM and yoinking the Fedora-compiled .so and jamming that file into my .xo? This is my understanding. As long as it's just one

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Asheesh Laroia wrote: I suppose I'll have to include a libraptor.so.1 in my own .xo's lib/ directory. Is the normal(ish) way to do this by just unpacking the RPM and yoinking the Fedora-compiled .so and jamming that file into my .xo? This

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-10 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Asheesh Laroia wrote: This is my understanding. As long as it's just one library, it isn't a big problem. I have a friend who is packaging 5MB of Mono libraries for an activity written in C#. That person is still your friend? (-; Shhht! He may hear us ;-) Right. Let me note here

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-10 Thread elw
This thing obviously doesn't scale and in the long term we may end up reinventing a full blown package manager with dependency tracking, plus tools like apt for downloading and installing them. It seems to me that the ideal thing would be for Sun to go ahead and get around to releasing

Re: Activity depends on Fedora-packaged binary code

2007-12-10 Thread elw
This thing obviously doesn't scale and in the long term we may end up reinventing a full blown package manager with dependency tracking, plus tools like apt for downloading and installing them. But seriously, does the XO really need two package managers? What's wrong with