Making an RPM Distribution play nicely with ./configure && make && make install packages

[James McDonald]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> M.W. Chang wrote:
>
>>>> Typically I also install packages that I don't bother to role into 
>>>> an rpm but they are required by other components I want to install 
>>>> via rpm / apt-get.
>>>
>>>
>>> yourself either by installing RPMs of what the package wants, or 
>>> using --nodeps to bypass rpm's dependancy checking (if you're sure 
>>> the dependancy is met thru some other means, like an install from 
>>> source.) 
>>

How do you pass --nodeps to apt-get (apt4rpm) for some reason man 
apt-get doesn't give any pointers that I noticed.

>> Does apt-get rely on RPM for package maintenance? Sorry, I have never 
>> used apt-get before.
>
Some nice people ported apt-get across for rpm use...

>>
> Yes, it does. I'm also using Fedora Core 1. But I'm using "yum" 
> instead -- which, if not for a local mirror in Singapore, would be 
> just too slow and inefficient (because it checks for and downloads all 
> updated headers).
>
I tried the 'out of the box' yum and I was sitting there watching header 
files get downloaded and thought what a crock and went and got apt4rpm 
straight away