Merging two rpms

[Tim Lauridsen]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Paul Smith wrote:
>
>> On 1/5/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> Is there some way of merging two rpms into a single one?
>>>
>>>
>>> Just curious, but why would you want to do this?
>>
>>
>>
>> I agree, Paul, that my question may sound somewhat heterodox. However,
>> the idea came to me when I tried to create a rpm of the last version
>> of tovid:
>>
>> http://tovid.berlios.de/
>>
>> To create the rpm of the main part of tovid, I followed the usual
>> procedure (configure --> make --> checkinstall), but there was another
>> part of tovid, written in python, that I had to install too. The
>> creation of the respective rpm (of that second part of tovid) had to
>> follow a different procedure (specific to software written in python).
>> Then I thought that it would be convenient to have the whole tovid in
>> a single rpm, which motivated my question.
>
>
> Given that the whole thing is architecture-independent (it's all done 
> in scripting languages, calling up other tools), there's no reason why 
> it shouldn't all be in the same package, and the presence of SUSE RPM 
> packages linked from the project's website confirms this. I'm not sure 
> why the presence of python bits should be a problem for checkinstall, 
> not being a checkinstall user, but a hand-crafted RPM containing 
> everything should certainly be possible.
>
> Paul.
>
Agree, you can do all the special stuff in the Makefile, and keep the 
spec file very simple.

Tim