[cs615asa] HW2 Questions

[John Scire]

Hello,

I have a few questions that I wanted some clarification on regarding HW2.

1) For the node.js dependency, can we use the rpm package or should we 
include the source in our rpm package and put steps to build that along 
with statsd in the spec file?

2) I noticed that the dependencies for node.js differ slightly from the 
rpm listing and the main github website.  If we are using the rpm 
package, should we include a super-set of the dependencies and include 
all from both in our spec file?

3) After adding the dependencies and coming time to install the statsd 
rpm package on a clean machine, is it okay if it throws an error about a 
missing dependency, to which then the user must install to continue, or 
should it pull the dependency and install that automatically before 
continuing? But then again, am I correct in assuming that the only 
reason it pulls dependencies automatically when we install a package 
using yum, is that yum has the capability to do this when a package is 
on the repository as opposed to us installing a binary rpm package using 
rpm?

Thanks again,
John Scire