On 5/24/06, Aaron Spike <aaron@...476...> wrote:
Does yum automatically handle build dependencies as well as runtime dependencies? That is a very handy functionality. Otherwise you will need to install all the *-devel packages. If you are building for your own use you shouldn't need to worry about statically linking. We do this for distributed packages to increase the coverage that we can get out of just a few packages and reduce the problems users have.
In a quick search this morning, I saw some indications that maybe creating an autopackage for 64bit distros would be possible. Would you be interested in learning how to create these packages? 64bit distros are becoming more and more useable. It would be nice to cater to those users too.
Aaron Spike
Well as of recently Yum can be used for building packages too and it does handle the deps (though as far as I know it will install the needed deps [*devel packages] and then will continue to build the package). I'll ask to the Fedora Extras, maybe they even got a testing 0.44 package already.
From what I've read about autopackage, it looks really good. I'm not a
seasoned package builder, but am willing to learn how to create them, and if with that I can help fellow 64-bit users, then I will.