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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Add missing config to RPM target package
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:32:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150831163223.67982cd3@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55DCC1F6.4060008@gmx.de>

Dear Andreas Ehmanns,

On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:28:54 +0200, Andreas Ehmanns wrote:

> in my first try I had no pcre support, so rpm package was built with 
> --with-pcre=none
> Trying to install a binary rpm just containing one file on my target 
> system failed at the very beginning when rpm was checking package 
> dependencies. Setting --with-pcre=internal solved this problem. So it 
> seems to me that pcre is necessary to to dependency checks which is in 
> my opinion one of the main features or rpm. Isn't it?

If that's indeed the case, then pcre support is really mandatory for
RPM to be useful. Therefore, can you send a patch to make the pcre
dependency a mandatory one? Don't forget to add a comment explaining
why we're making it mandatory even if RPM makes it an optional
dependency.

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-31 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-21 11:26 [Buildroot] Add missing config to RPM target package universe II
2015-08-21 13:41 ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2015-08-24 16:25   ` universe II
2015-08-25  9:38     ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2015-08-25 19:14       ` Andreas Ehmanns
2015-08-23 18:06 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-08-25 19:28   ` Andreas Ehmanns
2015-08-31 14:32     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
     [not found]       ` <55E89D2B.4090804@gmx.de>
2015-12-04  7:30         ` Andreas Ehmanns
2015-12-04  8:13           ` Thomas Petazzoni

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