Tue Jun 28 16:11:26 2005

Ticket #1208

Making install scripts RPM-friendly


Priority: normal Reporter: john
Severity: minor Assigned to: anonymous
Component: Install Scripts Status: new
Version: 3.0.0 Resolution:  
Milestone: 3.0.0 Keywords:  

Description by john:

Design of the install scripts needs to be revised so that it is
possible to write an RPM spec that doesn't require patching of so many
files.     ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Primarily this requires that the
'configure' command should be run with different file locations to the
'install' command. For example    ./configure --bin_dir=/usr/bin
but    ./install --bin_dir=/var/tmp/campsite-root/usr/bin    This
would be facilitated by ensuring a clean separation of scripts which
prepare configuration files with those that copy files into their
final location. Also, makefiles which can be overridden by environment
defaults are preferable - the 'make.env' include make this difficult
in the context of RPM.

Changelog

Fri Aug 5 10:35:52 2005: Modified by mugur

  • milestone changed from 2.2.2 to 3.0.0