Re: restructuration

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

Holger Thon wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:04:09AM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Just a quick note for Ismael (in CC) in Spanish, sorry!
> >
> > [Ismael, para tí es la pregunta de los RPMS]
> >
> > The RPM issue reminds me another thing. Right now, there is a spec file
> > containing all the gnome-db packages. So, to build the RPMS, you need to
> > have installed PostgreSQL, MySQL, ODBC, and Oracle (and very soon other
> > DBMS when the in-development providers work) to be able to build the
> > RPMS. This is ok for me for the moment, because I've got all this
> > installed in my machine, but not for other people, or even for myself
> > when DB2, Sybase, etc, etc are included. I don't want to have hundreds
> 
> Sybase provider is usable now, the diffs just went out to Stephan for
> inclusion.
>
great!

> I'd suggest that libraries will be packaged first and each provider will
> be moved into a separate package, being build on the basic of the packaged
> libraries. I don't have a clue how this can be done using rpm, though.
> 
That's what I intend to do, but I've got no idea about how to do it with
rpm neither.