D rpm packages for Linux

[Jordi Sayol i Salomó]

En/na Jesse Phillips ha escrit:
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:37:40 +0200, Jordi Sayol i Salomó wrote:
>>> I'll ask you this, for RPM if it is stated to be a 32 bit package, can
>>> you installed it without "forcing" the install on a 64 bit system?
>> No, You have to force on 64 bits system, but You can assure dependencies
>> in both, 32 and 64 bits systems. The binary rpm packages can only have
>> one destination architecture, like deb.
>  
> Then I think a package should be built for each architecture. For a 
> Debian repository a separate database is provided for each architecture 
> so a package must be built for every architecture you wish to have the 
> package. I guess RPM is not the same in this, so it is of less importance.
> 
> I also think it is polite to give everyone a package that will just 
> install.
>  
>>> Now what you would probably have is a libgtkd package and a libgtkd-dev
>>> package. libghtkd doesn't care about dmd.conf, but libgtkd-dev would
>>> and it wouldn't be unreasonable to depend on d-compiler.
>> Then, I have to divide dmd into "libdmd", "libdmd-dev" and "dmd" too,
>> isn't it?
> 
> Well, actually the proper way would be to separate it into, libphobos, 
> libphobos-dev, dmd. And libtango is in Debian because of LDC.

Where to place druntime lib and headers?

> 
>>> You use those for modifying the package config file based on the
>>> environment being installed to. Configuration files are supposed to
>>> only have one owner. And I agree it is the cleanest way to deal with
>>> these issues and doesn't rely on shell scripts to get it right.
>> Interesting. Can You explain a bit more how the "dmdconf-manager"
>> package has to do the job?
> 
> I think you would probably have it take simple arguments; in English, "I 
> am GTKD and will need these options added to dmd.conf." and then removal 
> would just be, "I'm GTKD goodbye."
> 
> Since dmd.conf should already have /usr/lib, /usr/include and stuff in it 
> and GTKD should be installing to those directories anyway, I don't know 
> if there is much need to manage such an installation.

GTKD needs some additional linker-flags to properly link, like "-L-lgtkd"


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Jordi Sayol