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A tool for building software packages with fpm.
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Verifying package-depends before packaging by default? #136

Closed onesuper closed 8 years ago

onesuper commented 8 years ago

Hi @bernd

I notice that fpm-cookery will verify dependencies before it "installs" everything to a temp dir and lets fpm do the packaging stuff, unless a --no-deps option is used.

This option works for me when I package .rpm/.deb on my Mac. But i think the behavior is a little counter-intuitive.

Why should fpm-cookery do this verification by default? Why not just leave the resolution of the dependencies to the package manager on target system before the real installation starts?

Regards Yichao

bernd commented 8 years ago

@onesuper This is done because you might need some of the dependencies for building the software. Dependency handling will be refactored soon to not install dependencies by default. See: https://github.com/bernd/fpm-cookery/pull/131

Also, fpm-cookery expects packages to be built on the target platform. Building RPMs or DEBs on a Mac might work for packages which do not have any native dependencies (i.e. Java software) but breaks once the software you build requires any.