[PlanetCCRMA] metapackage exceptions

[Hector Centeno]

Hi,

I'm doing something similar but with Csound. I'm still trying to build
it using the spec files from CCRMA. I uninstalled all the CCRMA Csound
packages and yum did tell me that planetccrma-apps was going to be
uninstalled which I accepted. It didn't uninstall the dependencies,
only the metapackage and the Csound packages. Are you sure it is
telling you it will remove all the dependencies for planetccrma-apps?
After I succeed building Csound I'll install it and then reinstall the
-apps metapackage.

Cheers!

Hector

On 4/21/07, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 10:48 +0200, Michael E. Smith wrote:
> > Hi there:
> >
> > I'm wondering if there is an easy way for me to modify a metapackage.
> >
> > Specifically, I'd like the one application that I build from source to
> > not break the planetccrma-apps metapackage, thereby uninstalling all of
> > the package's other apps.
> >
> > Goes like this:
> >
> >       1. I install planetccrma-apps metapackage; Bliss!
> >       2. I get the bright idea that I might want to use a VST plugin with
> > ardour. OK, this is academic, as I don't have any VST plugins that I
> > even want to use. Further, I'm very "pro" LADSPA. But still, I gotsta
> > try it, right!?
> >       3. I remove ccrma's ardour before installing my own build and...
> >       4. Dependencies dictate removal of all planetccrma-apps.
>
> Yum is being stupid here. Good'ol apt would not have done that. If yum
> were a brighter kid it would suggest removing planetccrma-apps _only_,
> instead of all the dependencies of planetccrma-apps :-)
>
> >       5. Crap!
> >       6. So then I don't remove ccrma's ardour and install my own build right
> > over top of ccrma's wondering if I'm unclean.
> >
> > Do I worry too much? Or do I just need to make my own metapackage? Can
> > anyone nudge me in the right direction?
>
> As Anthony said the best option would be to build your own version of
> ardour with the proper changes to the spec file (get the .src.rpm). If
> the evr (epoch-version-release) of your package is higher than the one
> that the Planet CCRMA ardour2 (or Fedora Extras ardour) package then you
> should be able to install it with no problems (and without first erasing
> the non vst version). Obviously you would need to learn to build rpms
> from source if you don't know how.
>
> No such solution exists for installing directly from source (without an
> rpm). You could do things like first removing planetccrma-apps, then
> removing ardour, then installing your own (always use prefix=/usr in the
> configure stage to minimize the chance you will end up with two versions
> of anything installed in different places). Then perhaps checking
> periodically what installing planetccrma-apps would do (ie: which
> packages it wants to add that are not there already) and install them by
> hand.
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
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