RPMs and Activity bundles

[Charles Merriam]

At the risk of low content information:

I heard this rumor that EToys ships with one or rpms embedded.  It's
an untested rumor from an unreliable source.  Did I mention it could
be wrong?

Charles Merriam


On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
>
> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>  >  Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>  >  | It depends on the contents of the rpm. In some cases you would need to
>  >  | rebuild...
>  >  |
>  >
>  >  OK, how about instructions starting with a SRPM?
>
>  I don't think it make sense to do it starting from a SRPM. To do it
>  right you would probably start from the upstream sources. And I don't
>  think it's possible to come up with generic instructions. A lot of
>  libraries and applications hardcode paths in the code (depending on
>  the build prefix usually), which for obvious reason doesn't work for
>  bundles.
>
>  It might be possible to come with some kind of fuse magics, but I
>  never really explored the possiblity. Glick, for example, is an
>  attempt to do that:
>  http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/glick/
>
>  Marco
>
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