>>>> 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.
>
Agree, you can do all the special stuff in the Makefile, and keep the
spec file very simple.
Thanks, Tim. That is too complicate to me, and I can survive well with
two rpms instead of a single one.
Paul