[CMake] License agreement in package installation
Hi, I need to add an interfactive license agreement to an RPM package when it is installed in Linux terminal (not GUI), it should display the license and asked whether the user agree or not. I noticed from cmake 2.8.8 document there is CPACK_RESOURCE_FILE_LICENSE may produce such process, am I right? If I am wrong, how can I make it work with cmake / cpack? Thank you. Kind regards, Jupiter -- View this message in context: http://cmake.3232098.n2.nabble.com/License-agreement-in-package-installation-tp7581672.html Sent from the CMake mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
Re: [CMake] License agreement in package installation
2012/9/17 hce jupiter@gmail.com: Hi, I need to add an interfactive license agreement to an RPM package when it is installed in Linux terminal (not GUI), it should display the license and asked whether the user agree or not. I noticed from cmake 2.8.8 document there is CPACK_RESOURCE_FILE_LICENSE may produce such process, am I right? This is the right way to do it but... If I am wrong, how can I make it work with cmake / cpack? This is not supported by CPack RPM, we could include the license text file as a %doc file but.. ..it is usually a bad idea to include interactivity (i.e. install time question) in an RPM, because most of the time no-one will be there to answer it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2132828/adding-license-agreement-in-rpm-package (see licensing guidelines of RPM based distros as well: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Licensing) On Debian dpkg sometimes ask question but there is a mean to avoid them of provide default answers in a 'non-interactive' way: http://serverfault.com/questions/84521/automate-dpkg-reconfigure-tzdata That said, with CPackRPM you may use CPACK_RPM_PRE_INSTALL_SCRIPT_FILE see: cpack --help-variable CPACK_RPM_PRE_INSTALL_SCRIPT_FILE in order to launch a pre-install script that may ask a question. An appropriate alternative would be to pop-up the license agreement at some other point: - Before downloading the RPM - On the first run of the installed software - ... -- Erk Le gouvernement représentatif n'est pas la démocratie -- http://www.le-message.org -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
Re: [CMake] License agreement in package installation
Hi, On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:00:03PM -0400, cmake-requ...@cmake.org wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:59:28 -0700 (PDT) From: hce jupiter@gmail.com Subject: [CMake] License agreement in package installation To: cmake@cmake.org Message-ID: 1347883168204-7581672.p...@n2.nabble.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, I need to add an interfactive license agreement to an RPM package when it is installed in Linux terminal (not GUI), it should display the license and asked whether the user agree or not. I noticed from cmake 2.8.8 document there is CPACK_RESOURCE_FILE_LICENSE may produce such process, am I right? If I am wrong, how can I make it work with cmake / cpack? You don't. ;) (as quoted from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1797455/how-to-put-license-agreement-in-spec-file-rpm ) Eric mentioned another stackoverflow URL, too. Note that shell archive (shar-style) package generators (STGZ, STBZ2 etc.) do have a license acknowledge step, though. If you do feel the urge to add this to an explicitly automation-capable mechanism (e.g. RPM), then definitely make sure to check for non-interactive shell environment, as Eric said. Philosophically spoken you could say that since you need to prevent non-interactive installs from getting blocked, this means that one user group will be prompted, whereas another user group (with installation carried out automatically) will not have any license acknowledgement step. IOW, this strongly hints at RPM install step being the wrong place to do such things. HTH, Andreas Mohr -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
Re: [CMake] License agreement in package installation
Thanks Eric and Andreas. On 9/18/12, Eric Noulard eric.noul...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/9/17 hce jupiter@gmail.com: Hi, I need to add an interfactive license agreement to an RPM package when it is installed in Linux terminal (not GUI), it should display the license and asked whether the user agree or not. I noticed from cmake 2.8.8 document there is CPACK_RESOURCE_FILE_LICENSE may produce such process, am I right? This is the right way to do it but... If I am wrong, how can I make it work with cmake / cpack? This is not supported by CPack RPM, we could include the license text file as a %doc file but.. ..it is usually a bad idea to include interactivity (i.e. install time question) in an RPM, because most of the time no-one will be there to answer it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2132828/adding-license-agreement-in-rpm-package (see licensing guidelines of RPM based distros as well: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Licensing) On Debian dpkg sometimes ask question but there is a mean to avoid them of provide default answers in a 'non-interactive' way: http://serverfault.com/questions/84521/automate-dpkg-reconfigure-tzdata That said, with CPackRPM you may use CPACK_RPM_PRE_INSTALL_SCRIPT_FILE see: cpack --help-variable CPACK_RPM_PRE_INSTALL_SCRIPT_FILE in order to launch a pre-install script that may ask a question. An appropriate alternative would be to pop-up the license agreement at some other point: - Before downloading the RPM - On the first run of the installed software - ... -- Erk Le gouvernement représentatif n'est pas la démocratie -- http://www.le-message.org -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
