Thread: Mandrake RPMs rebuilt

Mandrake RPMs rebuilt

From
Thomas Lockhart
Date:
I've reposted RPMs for Mandake 8.1 at

  ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v7.2/RPMS/mandrake-8.1/

with one additional RPM built for the python "mx" package.

The postgresql RPMs themselves are built using the same spec file as
used by Lamar for the RH RPMS. The mx RPM is massaged from the RH source
RPM to remove gratuitous RH-isms and to remove references to the
Distutils package, which on Mandrake is included in the normal python
packages.

                        - Thomas

Re: Mandrake RPMs rebuilt

From
Lamar Owen
Date:
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:42 am, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> with one additional RPM built for the python "mx" package.

> The postgresql RPMs themselves are built using the same spec file as
> used by Lamar for the RH RPMS. The mx RPM is massaged from the RH source
> RPM to remove gratuitous RH-isms and to remove references to the
> Distutils package, which on Mandrake is included in the normal python
> packages.

Thank you, Thomas.

I try to nix RedHatisms from my spec -- it is not always possible since I
only run RedHat on my Intel machines (I run SuSE 7.3 on my UltraSPARC, but
have not had time to work on SuSEifying the 7.2 set yet), and I don't always
know what the RedHatisms are.

Back in the 7.0.x days I found a number of RedHatisms while putting together
GreatBridge's RPMsets, but that knowledge isn't as applicable today as it was
then.

I do know that Mandrake is just as guilty in applying 'Mandrakisms' -- but at
least they are documented. :-)

It does make it difficult to maintain a 'generic' RPM.....

Speaking of, I may be able to get another release out this week to fix some
problems that have been brought to my attention.  We'll see how I recuperate
from my last 18 16-hour days..... (18 _consecutive_ days.....)

I'll look at your mx RPM's spec and compare to RedHat's -- if a finer grained
dependency can be determined, then we can go that route, as the eGenix mx
stuff goes by more names than just 'mx'.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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Re: Mandrake RPMs rebuilt

From
teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date:
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:

>
> Speaking of, I may be able to get another release out this week to fix some
> problems that have been brought to my attention.

You really want the last set of changes I did... the initial one is
broken wrt. contrib (the paths in it  broken for 7.1, fixed, then
broken differently on 7.2)

--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

Re: Mandrake RPMs rebuilt

From
Lamar Owen
Date:
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 04:45 pm, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> > Speaking of, I may be able to get another release out this week to fix
> > some problems that have been brought to my attention.

> You really want the last set of changes I did... the initial one is
> broken wrt. contrib (the paths in it  broken for 7.1, fixed, then
> broken differently on 7.2)

Are the latest changes in 7.2-1.72?  Or do you have newer ones?

Love the changelog comments.... Particularly the one about my changelog entry
that didn't escape a macro... :-)
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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