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.