Re: a few questions

2002-08-19 Thread Miles Egan
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:05:11AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > 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 > > i

Re: a few questions

2002-08-15 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
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? Y

Re: a few questions

2002-08-15 Thread Miles Egan
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 07:02:32AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > 1. we want to make sure that all packages in an openpkg instance are built by > > the same compiler and we want to be able to specify that compiler on a > > per-instance basis. > > Not obvious, but possible (at least with Op

Re: a few questions

2002-08-13 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002, Miles Egan wrote: > I've been investigating openpkg for a few days now and overall I find it very > interesting. We have two requirements for a software pacakge system that > aren't obviously met by the current openpkg: > > 1. we want to make sure that all packages in an op