Re: [Pan-users] No source rpms with automatic dependency fetching?

[John Aldrich]

On Sunday 30 November 2003 01:27 pm, Anssi Porttikivi wrote:
> Is compiling Pan on RedHat 9 really that hard, that you have to manually
> get a dozen other library source tarballs and compile them all? No SRPMS
> or anything available for automatic fetching of dependent files with
> apt-get or yum? I have this religious hatred for everything that a
> computer should automate, but forces me to do manually...
>
> I don't know why, but my Pan suddenly stopped fetching news and complain
> about missing import-modules in the Pan log. Apt-get and Yum reported I
> have the latest version. To fix the situation, I thought I would compile
> a new one by hand. After several hours of fighting failing ./configure
> package checks I gave up and removed/re-installed Pan with apt-get and
> it works now ok, thank you!
>
As the RH 9 packager, I apologize for the difficulties. Awhile back I upgraded 
the spell packages on my system to satisfy the dependencies on another app (I 
think it was AYTTM that was bitching.) All the non-standard dependencies are 
there on pan.rebelbase.com under the RedHat section. Specifically if you look 
at http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/releases/0.14.2.90/REDHAT_9/ you'll see 
two directories, "gnet" and "gtkspell" which contain the relevant 
dependencies for GNET and GTKSPell. IIRC, GNET was updated awhile back and 
RedHat, in their infinite wisdom, declined to provide an updated version of 
the RPM, so I built it from the spec file and sent it in. 

GTKSpell was updated because, as I mentioned above, another app required a 
newer version, and it was easier to upgrade the whole thing than to just 
upgrade a piece here and there. :-)

AFAIK, since this is not an "official" RedHat package, RedHat does not have 
the dependencies.