Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (594 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Plater wrote:
> On 09/07/2009 02:40 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>   
> > houghi wrote:
> >   
> >     
> > > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:03:27PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > >   
> > >  
> > >   
> > >     
> > >       
> > > > I spent hours today downloading the missing dependencies for compiling
> > > > the source (using rpmbuild) for use with kaffeine and xine -- and after
> > > > much farting around by the rpmbuild it came up with the message that it
> > > > exited with an Error 1. So, all the time and effort was a total waste of
> > > > time and effort.
> > > >     
> > > >       
> > > >         
> > > It is indeed a pain to compile. I never had it working either. That is why
> > > I apreciate Packman so much for doing it for me. It is a pity that you see
> > > it as a waste of time, jusy because the result was not as you expected.
> > >
> > > I would call it a lesson learned, whatever you take away from it.
> > >   
> > >     
> > >       
> > That is another way at looking at it :-) .
> >
> > But "learning lessons" by having to spend hours downloading files and
> > therefore using up many MBs from one's monthly download limit is not
> > really the most efficient way of "learning".
> >
> > It only teaches that one must avoid any MS offerings and leave all the
> > 'testing' to others.
> >
> > But this is rather strange as well because I do not recall having this
> > problem (re xine/kaffeine) in earlier betas of oS - ie, before the code
> > word "MS" was introduced. But I am probably wrong.
> >
> >   
> >     
> > > You could go to the list where they discuss compiling with rpmbuild (not
> > > sure which one that is) and see if they can help you out there.
> > >   
> > >     
> > >       
> > Good idea. I'll see what I can do with regards to this.
> >
> >   
> >     
> > > houghi
> > >   
> > >     
> > >       
> > BC
> >
> >
> >   
> >     
> If you install the source package using, for instance xine-libs, zypper
> si -r Packman xine-lib then all the necessary devel packages are
> automatically installed as well. You can search for source packages with
> zypper se -st srcpackage xine to get a listing of matching source
> packages and the repository they're in. The spec file is installed in
> /usr/src/packages/SPECS, simply execute as root :-
> rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/xine-libs.spec to build the rpms
> which will be in /usr/src/packages/RPMS under their arch directory i.e.
> i386, i486, i586, i686, noarch or x86_64
> Regards
> Dave P
>   
Many Thanks, David. I shall put this into practice later today
(hopefully! :-) )

BC


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