Duncan posted on Mon, 11 Dec 2017 02:39:49 +0000 as excerpted: > On a binary distro, the easiest way to get /most/ necessary packages, > including the *-dev packages, installed, is to rebuild the shipped > version, using the existing sources package (on rpm-based distros, the > srpm, I've no idea what debian-based calls 'em). That will of course > install everything required to build it, so after that, all you'll need > to do is install the optional packages for options it didn't enable > (like ssl/tls here), and possibly, newer versions of dependencies if > you're trying to build a newer version of the package that requires > them.
... I know this due to my experience on mandrake back in the day, where double-digit steps of "dependency hell" when I resolved all the errors manually, "magically disappeared" when I started telling rpm to install everything needed to rebuild the existing package from the srpm. (There was a command that only installed deps, without actually rebuilding the package from the srpm itself.) As I said, that did leave any "updated requirements", where the minimal lib version was bumped beyond what the distro shipped, to resolve, along with any optional deps that the distro package maintainer decided not to enable, but that was minor, perhaps 10% of the deps I had been previously resolving one at a time, manually, perhaps 5% if I didn't actually upgrade, just stuck with the same version and enabled the desired options not enabled in the packaged version. A 90-95% reduction in required manual resolution is a *good* thing, and can /easily/ change the project from "too big to bother, gave up and will be less likely to try the next one", to "well /that/ wasn't so bad, what about this other one?"! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
