Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Update on packaging

[Bryan G. <Bry...@HP...>]

Bruno,

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:40:16PM +0000, Cornec, Bruno (Linux Consultant) wrote:
> Bruno Cornec said on Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:45:04AM +0100:
> 
> > While trying to adapt my LinuxCOE pbconf tree to that, I encountered
> > another issue, I think I mentioned earlier, but which is now hurting
> > because it prevents me from creating the packages in the VM:
> >
> > configure: error: can not automatically integrate with Apache HTTP
> > server
> >
> > My VMs try to keep the minimum needed to just allow the build of a
> > software, not its installation. So I still think that those checks
> > (which are useful) should be rather done at install time, rather than at
> > build time.
> >
> > Bruno.
> > Any Idea ?
> 
> Answering to yself ;-)
> 
> What about adding  anoption to configure (for packager, which means me
> atm) allowing for bypassing those checks ? That would of course not be
> on by default.
> 
> Would that work for you ?

Those kinds of checks are already there, IIRC (./configure --help)

  --without-APACHE        skip auto-integratation with Apache webserver
  --without-SUDOERS       skip auto-integration with sudo

I was thinking along same lines, but hadn't had a chance to try those
(since I had originally set them up).

bryang