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Re: [Synaptic-devel] Static synaptic?
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Rex Dieter |
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Re: [Synaptic-devel] Static synaptic? |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:40:16 -0500 (CDT) |
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 address@hidden wrote:
> Anyone built synaptic statically linked? Is there any reason why it would
> not build statically?
>
> I'll be attempting to build a static version today as we have a large
> organization that is running various versions of RH and SuSE. Some of
> those versions do not have the required GTK or other libraries required to
> run the latest code. We have an internal apt server and I only want one
> synaptic RPM to maintain.
While possible, I doubt it will work, as you want as Suse and different
RH versions use different versions of rpm (especially Suse with rpm3 and
RH with rpm4). Even if does *seem* to work, you're playing russian
roulette with the stability of your rpm databases.
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Rex A. Dieter address@hidden
Computer System Administrator http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln
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