John E. Perry wrote:
Richard Creighton wrote:
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 1:10:10 pm Philipp Thomas wrote:
... I would be willing to see if we can't use checkinstall with another installwatch. I'll keep you informed.
... As Carlos stated, sometimes you just want to build a simple RPM so the RPM database can keep track of user installed programs, possibly only normally _available_as_a_tarball_, not for redistribution necessarily.
Both tools can be valuable but OBS is a 1000 pound sledge hammer when a small tack hammer is needed sometimes.
Oooh, I'm glad I scanned this thread. There've been some packages available only as tarballs that interested me. Most I've just let alone, but I've installed a couple using the tarballs, not realizing there was a way to have them tracked.
I hope things get worked out, and I'll be watching, hoping for a positive result. Thanks, guys!
John Perry
I have found obs to be perfectly convenient even for small more or less trivial packages. Once you have a neat little .spec for your little util, it's not merely that you get it compiled, it's that you get it compiled and packaged in a standard and non-conflicting way, for several platforms, and for several versions of opensuse times several platforms each, all essentially for free after initial setup. It's also a good reference. When you build something in obs, you are building in a pristine reference up to date "perfect" system, which you rarely can claim any of your own systems are. When you build a package in obs, and then there is some problem with running it on some box, you can generally assume that means there is something wrong with the box and not the package, which is not true when you are trying to build & run something yourself and the box seems to be fine before you started, so you may waste time looking in the wrong place for a problem to fix. I usually build locally on the newest box I have at the moment just to get a new .spec file written in the first place. It would be a pretty slow process using obs to actually figure out all the stuff to build a new package and develop a good .spec file in the first place. But once you have more or less working starting point it's such a timesaver maintaining it forever after. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org