[Gambas-user] Question about making packages

Rolf-Werner Eilert eilert-sprachen at ...221...
Tue Oct 7 12:15:58 CEST 2014



Am 07.10.2014 11:27, schrieb Willy Raets:
> On di, 2014-10-07 at 11:00 +0200, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
>> Just for fun I tried to make an install package out of one of my
>> projects. Everything ran flawlessly, now there is an .rpm of the
>> binaries and an .rpm of the sources.
>>
>> If I was another user and would download and install the binary package,
>> would Gambas or the interpreter be installed automatically? Would the
>> dependencies be observed, or would I have to care for this myself?
>>
>> I tried to use the file browser and just clicked on the .rpm.
>> Installation was stopped because it didn't find a Gambas3 (I have a
>> self-compiled version running).
>>
>> There is one project which might be nice to distribute for our students,
>> in case they use Linux. That's why I ask.
>>
>> Rolf
>
> Rolf,
> the .rpm packages will only install if dependencies are met. This is
> something the distro's package installers normally check.
>
> Dependencies are only met, if a repository is know to you distro that
> can meet the dependencies by installing the gambas parts the .rpm needs.
>
> I don't know what distro you use and thus if a recent Gambas version is
> available for that distro.
>
> I do know that recent versions of Fedora and Mageia have Gambas 3.5.x in
> their repositories, so there installing the .rmp should work (presuming
> you did NOT make the .rpm with Gambas 3.5.90).
>
>

Yes, I hoped that would be so. The Linux version I tried this on is just 
too old to have a Gambas3 in the repos I guess.

Thanks for confirming that!

Rolf




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