On 1/6/06, Tim Lauridsen <tla-ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> Is there some way of merging two rpms into a single one? > >>> > >>> Just curious, but why would you want to do this? > >> > >> I agree, Paul, that my question may sound somewhat heterodox. However, > >> the idea came to me when I tried to create a rpm of the last version > >> of tovid: > >> > >> http://tovid.berlios.de/ > >> > >> To create the rpm of the main part of tovid, I followed the usual > >> procedure (configure --> make --> checkinstall), but there was another > >> part of tovid, written in python, that I had to install too. The > >> creation of the respective rpm (of that second part of tovid) had to > >> follow a different procedure (specific to software written in python). > >> Then I thought that it would be convenient to have the whole tovid in > >> a single rpm, which motivated my question. > > > > Given that the whole thing is architecture-independent (it's all done > > in scripting languages, calling up other tools), there's no reason why > > it shouldn't all be in the same package, and the presence of SUSE RPM > > packages linked from the project's website confirms this. I'm not sure > > why the presence of python bits should be a problem for checkinstall, > > not being a checkinstall user, but a hand-crafted RPM containing > > everything should certainly be possible. > > > Agree, you can do all the special stuff in the Makefile, and keep the > spec file very simple. Thanks, Tim. That is too complicate to me, and I can survive well with two rpms instead of a single one. Paul
