Re: [MiNT] rpm

[Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>]

Hi,

On tiistai 23 joulukuu 2014, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> Just want to say that Gentoo can generate RPM's too, but I think the
> dependency chain needs some work as it's never properly worked when
> generating the RPM.

Because everything is linked statically, there are no library
dependencies [1], I think the deps are mainly needed for interpreters
(shell, awk, perl etc) used by install scripts in few packages...

[1] Except for source packages, were you referring to these?


	- Eero

> Alan.
> 
> On 20/12/14 12:36, David Sandberg wrote:
> > Yes, there is a cross compiler as rpm. Rpm ist a very good automatic
> > update system. On targz you don't can make anything reverse. I never
> > shall do Gentoo or something like that. Rpm is what we needet.
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > "M.A. Kehr" <makehr@ndh.net> schrieb:
> >>>  RPM is doomed to hell in Freemint's case IMHO. No
> >>> 
> >>> cross compiling
> >> 
> >> That's not right, AFAIR it is possible to cross compile rpms.
> >> 
> >> I never installed gentoo, how dows it work to install and uninstall
> >> packages? It might be easy to install a tar.gz but how I can get rid
> >> of it, if I want to or is there a possibility in gentoo?
> >> 
> >> Another point, on a sparemint installation it is very simple to
> >> configure network and other daemons, how's this in gentoo?
> >> 
> >> regards
> >> 
> >> maanke