From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:53:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1393887234.4058.160.camel@Solace> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21268.49941.946044.324676@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
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On lun, 2014-03-03 at 17:59 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> George Dunlap writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target"):
> > Ah, you mean, it *also* counts as one of those packages for dependency
> > tracking?
> >
> > I can definitely see how that could be useful.
>
> Quite.
>
Indeed. :-)
> > Any opinions, Ian / Ian?
>
> I'm no expert on rpm. Is there a way to get the desirable effect
> (satisfying dependencies) without the undesirable one (unexpectedly
> deinstalling the sysadmin's other xen packages) ?
>
I think something like "Provides: xxx" can help with this, at least on
Fedora:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package#Other_tags
As soon as rpmball builds for me (see the other e-mail I just sent),
I'll be happy to help experimenting with it.
Regards,
Dario
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-03 14:59 [PATCH] Add a "make rpmball" target George Dunlap
2014-03-03 16:07 ` George Dunlap
2014-03-03 22:34 ` Don Slutz
2014-03-03 23:08 ` Don Slutz
2014-03-03 23:37 ` M A Young
2014-03-03 23:46 ` Don Slutz
2014-03-03 23:52 ` M A Young
2014-03-04 10:26 ` George Dunlap
2014-03-03 16:23 ` Olaf Hering
2014-03-03 16:34 ` George Dunlap
2014-03-03 16:36 ` George Dunlap
2014-03-03 17:31 ` Olaf Hering
2014-03-03 17:23 ` Olaf Hering
2014-03-03 17:27 ` Dario Faggioli
2014-03-03 17:30 ` George Dunlap
2014-03-03 17:59 ` Ian Jackson
2014-03-03 22:53 ` Dario Faggioli [this message]
2014-03-03 23:11 ` Olaf Hering
2014-03-04 12:19 ` Ian Jackson
2014-03-03 18:19 ` Ian Campbell
2014-03-03 23:06 ` Olaf Hering
2014-03-03 20:51 ` Don Slutz
2014-03-04 11:41 ` George Dunlap
2014-03-03 22:52 ` Dario Faggioli
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