Re: [Adonthell-general] Re: RPMS - anyone tested them? :P

[Ryan Voots]

when installing an rpm when it cant find the librarys
and you no there there, you have to do a --nodeps with
it all so it doesnt check for them

--- Mattias_Päivärinta <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Hi guys!
> Gotta say you're doing a great work! I'm a fan :)
> 
> >I'm very worried 'cause I see that many many people
> are downloading the
> >latest release's RPMs. They have been built on a
> Debian, and have not
> >been tested neither on Mandrake, neither on RedHat,
> neither on Suse. If
> >a user of these distros has (un)successfully
> installed and played with
> >the RPMs, can he say so? Maybe we have
> disappointing lots of people
> >because some libraries aren't the same on others
> systems!
> >
> I have some reports on Gentoo 1.2.
> 
> First I tried the build script, but it tried to
> install another copy of 
> ogg, so I gave it up and installed manually and that
> went as smooth as 
> anything.
> Why don't you add a few tests to the build script
> for SDL and stuff? If 
> it's already in there's no need to install another
> copy..
> I also noticed the creation of a strange root
> directory. Is it really 
> supposed to be there? (not that it matters much
> anyway)
> 
> Just for the fun of it I tried to install by source
> rpm.
> The --rebuild went just fine, but -i couldn't find
> _any_ libraries and 
> refused to install even with --force.
> It probably didn't find my libraries because I
> installed them through 
> portage, but it's still stupid as configure found
> everything. By then I 
> decided that I don't like rpm and threw it out all
> together..
> 
> So I guess the conclusion is that Adonthell runs
> like a charm on Gentoo, 
> but rpm sucks ;)
> 
> Keep on rockin!
> Mattias
> 
> 
> 
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