Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Update on packaging

[Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...>]

Bryan Gartner said on Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 07:53:12AM -0600:

> I was actually thinking of creative/reworked autoconf checks instead
> (that you could turn off in packaging context).  Since make install
> puts bits on your system, it would be frustrating to then have it tell
> you later that you still needed dependencies.  And the current scheme
> would already have turned off the apache integration, since it couldn't
> find apache*ctl.
> 
> FWIW, you already have the ability to do:
> 
> 	  --without-PACKAGE       do not use PACKAGE (same as
> 	  --with-PACKAGE=no)
> 	  --without-APACHE        skip auto-integratation with Apache webserver
> 	  --without-SUDOERS       skip auto-integration with sudo
> 
> so maybe I should just augment that list.

Humm does using --without-APACHE  avoids the creation of the conf file and u
its installation ? If yes, it's not what I want.

What about generating BOLD warnings, instead of aborting ending with 
"You build is correct but won't work on that system" ?
Remember that it's only for tar.gz, as for packages, depedencies take
care of that, and will enforce it.

After all it's not different when you use --nodeps with rpm to install a
package anyway.

Moreover, I forgot to mention it, but your checks are not working on all 
distros, as the most recent do not use mkisofs anymore but genisoimage, 
....  So you should check now for one or the other.

> Actually, the packaging/<module>debian/changelog files already have the
> info you are looking for, I think.  And since we have yet to officially
> produce .debs, they stand at 4.1-1, but the latter value should be
> rev'd each time.

I've not looked at why they were not produced, as I was already happy to
find a bunch of packages made automagically ;-) Will work on that ...
well honestly don't know exactly when as it's becoming hectic here :-)

Have a nice WE !
Bruno.
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