Re: [SAGE] Looking for call management/helpdesk software

[Christopher Malek <cmalek@caltech.edu>]

CY: Chuck Yerkes

CY> Building from source and having it in the packagemanagement system
CY> is the goal.  Playing "find the rpm" gets tiring, esp when this
CY> works that that libc, but not the one I have, and you also need
CY> THIS package, etc.

CY> When I build mutt with slang, it will find and build slang for me
CY> (a dependancy) and then build mutt.

apt does this, too.  If you do "apt-get install mutt", apt will figure
out what mutt depends on, go out and download the mutt package and all
the packages that mutt depends on, and install them all in the proper
order.  apt-rpm relieves you from having to play "find the RPM".

I've only ever done this with precompiled binaries, but AFAIK, you're
supposed to be able to get apt to download source packages and build
everything on your system.


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