[TriLUG] SRPMs on RHL 8.0

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Thu Oct 24 09:36:04 EDT 2002


On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 14:33, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> I'll of course let Jeremy K. provide his own answer, but my thought is
> that it allows the rpm package to not depend on a compiler and the rest
> of the build tools.  This way, you can have a smaller installation that
> doesn't involve all the development tools, without breaking any
> dependencies.  If rpm included the --rebuild option, and therefore
> depended on rpm-build, this wouldn't be possible.

Not necessarily true.  You could have the main rpm executable
fail with an error whenever rpmbuild wasn't installed.  In fact,
I believe I've seen this happen when the rpm-build rpm wasn't
installed on some versions of Redhat.

The point about not depending on the compiler is interesting, 
though.  I wouldn't think, though, that rpmbuild would depend
on a particular compiler, since I view it more like make -- a
generic facility that can execute whatever is needed to build
a package, be it gcc, perl, python, whatever.  There shouldn't
be any "dependency" in the rpm sense there.

It does make sense, however, to not include that functionality
when not needed (i.e. small or embedded systems).

Cheers, 
Tanner
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