Re: [Rule-list] [Observations] Compiling on a RULE Computer

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Sunday 11 August 2002 04:52 pm, Geoff Burling wrote:

> This is one goal of my email: to accumulate a list of rpms that should
> go into collecting a programming package, much like the existing
> networking one. I would have been a lot happier if I could say ``these
> are the packages we need in such a collection", & offer a list that I
> have verified.

Both Miniconda and slinky should have a 'development packages' option.
If you look at the comps file on a Red Hat install CD, the section under 
"Software Development" contains the list of packages installed by default 
during a normal install, when development packages are selected. It 
contains an extensive list of packages as it's base, and additional 
packages dependent on the installation of other package groups. (KDE, 
gnome, multimedia, etc.)

As a point of reference, I tried compiling a kernel on a P-200 with 8M? 
(May have been 16M) of RAM. After about 36 hours, I killed the process so 
I could get back to testing RULE installs.

> That would explain why I found /etc/ld.so.conf to have only one line --
> ``/usr/kerberos/lib". Perhaps the RH rpms will update /etc/ld.so.conf &
> rerun /sbin/ldconfig with further installs; but this is a sticking
> point I feel needs to be documented, & my email is a first step.

The various packages needing to update /etc/ld.so.conf normally do so as 
part of a post install scriptlet. The file is updated, and ldconfig is 
run. For example, the XFree86-libs package:
address@hidden etc]$ rpm -q --scripts XFree86-libs-4.2.0-8
postinstall scriptlet (through /bin/sh):
{
  grep "^/usr/X11R6/lib$" /etc/ld.so.conf &> /dev/null
  [ $? -ne 0 ] && echo "/usr/X11R6/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf

  /sbin/ldconfig
}

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