From: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
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To: | "Roderick A(dot) Anderson" <raanders(at)tincan(dot)org> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Poul Laust Christiansen <poulc(at)cs(dot)auc(dot)dk>, Ned Lilly <ned(at)greatbridge(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: GreatBridge RPMs (was: Re: question) |
Date: | 2001-01-23 21:55:14 |
Message-ID: | 3A6DFDC2.93CA404C@wgcr.org |
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"Roderick A. Anderson" wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > RPM. That should work, unless the package spec makes some unportable
> > assumptions, such as different file system layouts. But that is often
> > only an annoyance, not a real problem.
> I'm glad to see GreatBridge will be providing RPM's for many
> distributions. Though I do tend to re-compile from source I've found that
> those mdk's don't work too good with RHL.
And I _love_ to get feedback about the nonportable things I do in the
spec files (right, Peter ? :-)).
I am trying (and Great Bridge helped) to get a fully
distribution-independent source RPM working. I am closer than I was --
the same spec file now works on RedHat, Mandrake, Turbo, and (to a
lesser extent) Caldera, and soon will work seamlessly on SuSE. It may
very well work on others. The hooks are there now for SuSE -- just some
fill-in work left to be done.
Portability is hard. C programmers have known this for some time -- but
the RPM specfile doesn't really lend itself to vast portability.
Although, I am learning some real tricks that really help.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11
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