On 1/5/06, Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org 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:
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.
As they say at their site:
«The installation files will go into a subdirectory tovid-0.23 within the current directory. Next, do the following:
$ cd ~/Downloads/tovid-0.23 $ ./configure $ su -c 'make install' $ su -c './setup.py install' »
As far as know, checkinstall has not implemented the last (above) command. The Suse rpms that you mention are too old (version 0.19, whereas the current one is 0.24).
Paul