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[Ltib] why are the host tools built in rpm format?


From: Robert P. J. Day
Subject: [Ltib] why are the host tools built in rpm format?
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:37:11 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14)

  if you can stand one more newbie question, i'm unclear on why the
host-side ltib tools are built in rpm format, then installed under
/opt/freescale/ltib.

  having worked with other similar build systems (such as openwrt),
i'm well aware of the need to first generate all of the essential
native (host) tools -- things like wget, genext2fs and so on.  but
why do they need to be created in rpm format, particularly if they
already exist on the development system?

  currently, i'm running a fedora 9 system, which has all of rpm,
wget and so on already installed.  yet the ltib system insists on
rebuilding all of those, then installing them in an rpm-rooted
directory for no obvious reason that i can see.

  as long as a (native) build utility exists on the system, is there
really a pressing need to build it all over again?  or is there
something tricky happening with that rpm-rooted install directory that
i'm just not seeing (maybe something involving "chroot" or something)?

  thanks.

rday
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