Re: [ROOT] root rpms

From: Valeriy Onuchin (Valeri.Onoutchine@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 09:15:46 MET


Hi, sorry.
Small correction: 
"ROOT is shipped with binaries for ~10 different compilers"
should be read as
"ROOT for _linux_ is shipped with binaries for ~10 different compilers"

Regards. Valeriy


> Hi Justin,
> just a question:  "RPM for which compiler?"
> ROOT is shipped with binaries for ~10 different compilers
> (in sense gcc 3.2.2 is different from gcc 3.2). 
> So, to be consistent that will require ~10 different ROOT RPMs 
> 
> Regards. Valeriy
> 
> ++
>   ROOT build from the source options include "make rpm". Try this one.
> 
> > I was aiming today to set up root on my box from rpms, meaning I wanted to
> > add a small CVS update script to cron's list of duties which would update
> > the source tree and from that precipitate the corresponding binary rpm's
> > and rpm -U them into the system filesystem tree, seeing that it is wise to
> > defer such housekeeping to adept rpm, but during the first rpmbuild rpm
> > found some dependency error.  I don't remember what it was.
> > 
> > But, I do have a point (finally) and a corollary.  My point is is the rpm
> > stuff in ROOT important enough to be actively tested and maintained,
> > perhaps even supplying rpm'd builds along with each release?  The
> > corollary is that building root_v10.01 with the provided spec failed for
> > me.
> > 
> > [justin@archimedes justin]$ uname -a
> > Linux archimedes.adam-ondi-ahman 2.4.22-1.2129.nptlcustom #3 Tue Dec 2 01:07:47 MST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> > 
> > Were I more rpm savvy I would offer to maintain ROOT's rpm functionality
> > myself or point to someone who could and would because rpm remembers what
> > it has done, when I always don't, and other reasons rpms supersede (at
> > least prebuilt) tar balls I shall not enumerate here.
> > 
> > 
> > Justin
> > 
> > 
> 
> 



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