[Egrail-source-developer] AW: AW: eGrail-Source: looking for RPM-packager

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Hello Andrew!

Thanks for your congratulations - sometimes you have to make decisions :-=
)

I agree that it would not be a good thing to integrate Apache, PHP and My=
SQL
into
the RPM since they're widely used and easy to install. So your solution
treating them as dependencies sounds good to us.

What is really a problem are the needed tools as freetype, gd, and the
number of perl-modules. Any hints on how to handle this?

Binary - RPM's are the ones business-user want to have (like me :-))

regards,
Anatol

P.S.: it seems to be a good month for weddings :-)

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Von: Andrew Nelson [mailto:ga...@ms...]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 02. Mai 2001 15:37
An: ana...@li...
Betreff: Re: AW: eGrail-Source: looking for RPM-packager


Honeymoon, huh? Likely story... ;) Congratulations!

Ok, I've grabbed sources and am looking over the file. Seems fairly
straightforward, but it leads me to ask a few things about design
philosophy.

Apache, MySQL, and PHP - these all come in RPM flavors, and RPM can treat
them as dependencies. Is that the preferred course of action? I assumed a=
s
much, which means that the RPM won't do a lot of things that the perl
installer does (like install them if they arent there), but it keeps RPM
size down, and makes the package a lot more modular. I'd hate to see peop=
le
have to uninstall their webserver just to remove one component cleanly.
Again, I gathered that this was the direction you wanted to go anyway, bu=
t
I've been known to have a brain made out of pork rinds on occasion, so I
always like to check :)

Source RPM, or binary? The eternal question... no reason we can't do both=
,
of course, but I find most people who want source grab it in tarball
version, and most people who bother with RPM just want the binaries (thou=
gh
"binary" is something of a misnomer in this case, there are binary files =
in
there somewhere I'm assuming - havent finished looking. Of course, it cou=
ld
be that pork rinds thing again).

Oh, I'm on the mailing list now too :)

Anyway, I've work to do before I leave for vacation (just a short one, ha=
ve
to go see a friend get married) but I'll probably get to hacking on the
packager this weekend.

Cheers,
Andrew