[mapguide-internals] MGOS Live CD

[Sylvain Pasche]

Zac Spitzer wrote:
>> 1) The easy but ugly one: we build mapguid from the Unix instructions
>> and create a single mapguide.rpm package with all the files that have
>> been installed inside /usr/local/mapguideopensource/ (and init.d script
>> files for starting the service).
> 
> I would love to see that script, how easy is it?

I don't have such a script. It should be a .spec file that launches the
build scripts in the %build section and then references all the
installed files in /usr/local/mapguideopensource in the %files sections
(if I remember correctly how to build rpms).

>> 2) The more complex and clean solution:
>> Create rpm files for each of the mapguide dependencies (or use the
>> existing .rpm files for libraries already available in the
>> distribution). I identified the following dependencies:
> 
> sounds like a great idea, it would also indirectly help building as it
> seems people
> are getting stuck with missing dependancies
> 
> FDO itself should be a rpm

yes, that could be useful for using it without Mapguide (and should be
installed in /usr/lib like all libraries).


Sylvain