[Bacula-users] Re: Bacula RPMs without gconsole (patch)

[Scott B. <sco...@co...>]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 13:10 +0200, Mindaugas wrote:
>   Hello,
> 
>   Attached patch for bacula.spec file to be able to build without
> gconsole (build_gconsole define). Then server/client build requires
> much fewer gnome and other needed RPMs installed.
> 
>   Questions and notices:
>   - I think "BuildRequires: glibc-devel" can be removed because anyway
>     on both RHEL3 and RHEL4 gcc requires glibc-devel to be installed.
>     Why to make .spec file too complicated?

That is possible but without knowing the requires on all possible cases
I prefer to explicitly state the requirements to build.

>   - What for is "BuildRequires: ORBit-devel" for rh7? Since anyway later it
>     is noted that now gconsole is only available for Gnome2?

Kern can perhaps comment, but without double-checking I believe the file
daemon may use CORBA technology and requires ORBit. If not it was
probably an oversight to leave it in.

>   - Current patch reverts default build behaviour to not build gconsole.
>     To retain current behaviour maybe nobuild_gconsole define would be more
>     reasonable.

Yes, from a standpoint of building packages for distribution a nobuild
default would be better.

> 
>   Mindaugas