Re: [toolbox-l] Required packages for rpm

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

If you know something is already installed and rpm is complaining about the
dependencies, then you can add --nodeps to the rpm -i command-line to tell
it to ignore the dependencies.

Unfortunately, this won't work for some of the support libraries for now.
The shared objects are almost universally different from the ones which 
Bull produced and thus they are not shareable.  There is a lengthy description
of this situation in the README.  We will be paving over those incompatibilities
over time, but not without some pain to our current users.

In a nutshell, you can't use the Bull versions of zlib, tiff, jpeg, and libpng
to support the Toolbox versions of AIX and GNOME.

We don't have any plans at the moment to generate tar.gz files.  We might be 
able to be convinced otherwise, but that's not the current direction.  You
can generate your own from an RPM image if you'd like, but you need rpm
(you can do it on some other system) and the GNU version of cpio (not the 
AIX version - that won't work).  For example - 

    mkdir /tmp/tmpd; cd /tmp/tmpd
    rpm2cpio foo.rpm
    tar cf foo.tar *
    gzip foo.tar

You can remove files as you like along the way and use the tar balls, but 
you're doing it at risk of losing dependency checking (and potentially
losing some post-installation configuration checking) that you get with
the RPMs.

The RPM format isn't the problem - it's the incompatible shared library
situation.  Getting tar balls won't solve that problem.

Marc


> 
> I already have in my system all the packages and libraries
> listed as "Base Linux Affinity Support" and
> "Common Support Programs for GNOME and KDE", but they are installed from 
> sources
> or from bull-installp packages.
> 
> During first installation of KDE, rpm complains that they are missing :
>   Is there a way to avoid duplicate all the packages
> in both sorce tgz (or bull) and rpm ? I would not like to reinstall again 
> gcc, bash, etc, etc !
> 
> Thans in advance
> Fulvio
> 
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