Geoffrey Wossum wrote:
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the job right now. For instance, our packages are supposed to
have a pre-install script that does a click-through agreement.
I've tried to explain that you can tell the package system (rpm,
at least) not to run pre-install scripts and therefore it probably
Hello!
Trying to catch up with the mailing lists :-)
I'm surprised that this patch has not been applied since October. I
believe it's very valuable. I even considered doing it myself.
b) default static expansion to off, avoids surprising anyone depending
on dynamic expansion by make,
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:49:04PM -0500, Michael Sweet wrote:
Rusty Ballinger wrote:
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(What packaging systems only let you create packages as root, and
why do they do that? I know rpm *wants* you to be root, but you
don't have to be...)
Debian's dpkg needs you to run as root;
"Michael" == Michael Sweet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael http://www.easysw.com/epm
I haven't tried this, but I read through the web site, and it
definitely looks like what I'd like out of an `autopackage'.
Michael 1. Provide an install-sh like script that appends the
Michael
I tracked down the CXX definition in the fileutils' Makefile.ins, and
it's damned stupid...
Automake comes with its own set of macros, for instance to set up
AM_DEPENDENCIES. Whoever uses automake will include these macros in
aclocal.m4. Then automake, when scanning aclocal.m4 will find
Actually, you could probably steal the script stuff from the
portable.c file that shows the license agreement. I wouldn't wait
for the response (that would break GUI installers), but at least
you can cat out the license agreement to the screen...
But just displaying the license doesn't have
Tom Tromey wrote:
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MichaelThe downside is that you have to somehow clear the
Michaelexisting list file before doing this, or only do it
Michaelonce, so that you have the correct set of files...
I don't understand this.
Basically, the install-sh hack would append
On Jan 22, 2001, Michael Sweet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What it doesn't do (yet) is provide a tool to automate the creation
of the list file.
make install DESTDIR=/tmp/install
find /tmp/install/. ! -name . -print | sed 's,^/tmp/install,,'
rm -rf /tmp/install
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Alexandre Oliva Enjoy
Geoffrey Wossum wrote:
Actually, you could probably steal the script stuff from the
portable.c file that shows the license agreement. I wouldn't wait
for the response (that would break GUI installers), but at least
you can cat out the license agreement to the screen...
But just
On Jan 23, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, IMHO, we have just no issue until we release an autoconf --trace
aware automake. And frankly, I can't wait :) Automake will be much
shorter (less hard coded knowledge on Autoconf), more robust (less
hard coded knowledge on Autoconf), and more
"Michael" == Michael Sweet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jan 22, 2001, Michael Sweet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What it doesn't do (yet) is provide a tool to automate the creation
of the list file.
make install DESTDIR=/tmp/install
find /tmp/install/. ! -name .
hi Tom,
thank you so much for your help! your advice was fantastic. whoops... i
just noticed your name on the autotools book! no wonder!
anyway, everything you mentioned was documented in the "info" file so
you don't have to worry about adding anything.
based on your advice i created my
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