On Mon 29 May 2006 18:48, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
On 2006-05-29 17:03:23 +0300, Peter Nixon wrote:
I am building a bunch of packages at present (sipxpbx) which have a convoluted set of dependencies. As it turns out all of the dependencies are provided by SUSE 10.1, some are missing in 10.0 and many more are missing in 9.3
For example, one set of dependencies is "ruby, rubygems, rake".
Now, given that these are all provided by SUSE 10.1, how can I provide these packages to SUSE 10.0 and 9.3 users? I could of course take the source rpms from 10.1, and add them to my project, but that then means to I am providing a package for 10.1 which already exists..
At a minimum I would like a way to enable/disable build targets per package, which would make this solution workable.
A more preferable solution (although one that may require a bit more work) would be the ability to link a SUSE 10.1 package into my project which should then be transparently built for my other build targets if they don't provide it.
we have a ruby project. and this ruby project has all needed packages. if those packages are pure ruby you can maybe maintain the packages in the ruby project aswell. otherwise you can just link the needed packages from the ruby project into your project.
Hi Darix Thanks for the offer, however I only used the ruby dependency as an example (the package group in question anyway is mostly C++ and java, with a little ruby tacked onto the web interface). I have exactly the same issue with another package (slony-I sql replicator) which requires the latest Postgresql which only comes with SUSE 10.1 and a similar issue with needing java 1.5.0 which doesn't come with SUSE 9.3 for another package. I am sure I will find more example as I continue adding packages to the system. This is something that should be solved in a more general way if possible.. -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc