[odb-users] Re: RPMs for ODB

[Chris Morgan]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:45, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> [CC'ed odb-users mailing list to my reply.]
>
> Chris Morgan <christopher.j.morgan at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Are there any plans to provide a set of RPMs to the RedHat and/or
>> Fedora projects at some point?
>
> I was hoping Fedora community would do this at some point (and put
> ODB into their repository). I wonder if there is any way to suggest
> software for packaging in Fedora?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process

>
>> We were looking at ODB for a recent project but were unable to use
>> it because our customer requires RPMs for 3rd party libraries.
>
> Are you only looking for RPMs for the runtime libraries (libodb and
> libodb-mysql; in other words libraries that you would normally
> distribute with your application). Or for the whole system, including
> the ODB compiler?

I would imagine a -devel RPM for the compiler and any include files,
etc. needed for development with ODB.  Then possibly a -libs file for
the runtime libraries and maybe even a separate -docs RPM (that's
similar to the mysql++ packaging scheme).

-Chris