[cs615asa] HW2 Questions

[Hongyi Shen]

For #1, I think we don't need to include the source. For example, here =>
https://github.com/kazuhisya/nodejs-rpm
The dependencies list in BuildRequires are installed with yum in this case.



On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:49 PM, John Scire <jscire at stevens.edu> wrote:

> 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
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