Re: Dependancies

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On 6 Nov 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> From: Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>
> Subject: Dependancies
>
> OK, I'm sending this out to a couple of places, since I'm curious how
> others handle this.  I just grabbed the latest bonobo release, and fired
> up the build on it for a new RPM.  A little ways into configure, it
> fails stating "ORBit 0.5.12 or later required".  Now, in the case of
> bonobo, I usually let the ORBit dependancy get picked up through oaf
> (oaf requires ORBit, bonobo requires oaf, therefor bonobo requires
> ORBit).  In this case that seems to break down, since the latest oaf
> doesn't actually require the latest ORBit.  I suppose I can put explicit
> release requirements into the oaf rpm (build an oaf-0.6.7-2 which
> explicitly requires ORBit-0.5.12 or newer), but I wasn't sure if there
> was a better way.  Any thoughts?
> 	Greg

It's bonobo that requires ORBit 0.5.12 -- not oaf. (Refer to gnome-
components-list). So I'ld suggest putting the requirements in the bonobo
rpm, since that's where they belong.

kind regards,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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