[cups.general] Re: CUPS 1.1.20 - dependencies/RPM

Chris McKeever techjedi at gmail.com
Mon Sep 6 10:19:37 PDT 2004


On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:38:30 -0500, Chris McKeever <techjedi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found a SRPM for CUPS 1.1.20 and I looked at the SPEC file and
> noticed that it requires:
> XFree86-devel
> dbus-devel
> 
> both of which I do not think I have installed - however, when I
> compile from source it seems to work fine (I havent actually ran make
> install and tested, but it seems to compile fine)
> 
> Are these actual dependencies?
> 

I found the .spec file in the source from the cups download site -
what a much cleaner version!  so building it from that went amazingly
smoothe...still a bit baffled with the whole creating the spec file -
need to play with that some more ... also want to look into
http://www.easysw.com/epm/ a bit more

thanks



> The only reason I am on this, is that I was trying to play with
> building my own RPMS, and noticed that this CUPS one i found seems to
> just run a lot of patches (back from 1.1.14) and then had these couple
> strange dependencies....does anyone know where a clean CUPS RPM is
> located??
> 
> slightly off topic - if there is anyone good wiht making RPM's out
> there, If you could point me to a good HOWTO, I would be
> appreciatiative (I have the RH RPM book, and they seem to make it seem
> easier than what I have found looking at some SPEC files)
>





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