Geoffrey Lee wrote:
netscape only comes in binary, you see.
I give up Hahaha!
no,no,no
I just wanted to suggest to give the choice of an alternative
installer/uninstaller for non existant RPM-built sources,
or if I prefer not to go RPM way for that specific software ...
the
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Alex Hayes wrote:
AppDrake or InstallDrake
utility would take a .tar, .tar.gz, etc. uncompress it into a temp
directory, run through the ./configure, make and make install, or
alternatively running an install.sh or other script. even for those of us
who have no
what do you thing of this?
It's a 5 minutes-made glade screenshot. The tree and the list are unfilled, so
there are hidden, but should be there.
The idea is to try to autodetect src, makefile, configure and other stuff
location, and try to parse Makefile to find out what the install process is.
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Alex Hayes wrote:
mostly due to my experience over at linuxnewbie.org, where many questions
are "i've downloaded __.tar.gz, now what do i do to install?"
It's almost impossible to write a generic front end for this. How would
you handle dependencies? Conflicts
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
- Yes, but imagine a huge package ( let say netscape )
which has so much files, scripts. etc ...
it could be impossible to parse the configs setup!
netscape only comes in binary, you see.
So? :-)
Here is an example Makefile for
--- Linux Frog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2000, you wrote:
AppDrake or InstallDrake
utility would take a .tar, .tar.gz, etc.
uncompress it into a temp
directory, run through the ./configure, make and
make install, or
alternatively running an install.sh or other
Not to restart this whole thing again, but has anyone noticed the yasop
project? Noticed it on freshmeat a moment ago.
yasop (Yet Another SOftware Packager) is a script to convert tarballs into
(binary) rpms.
Reading everyone's responses on this subject, I think many were in agreement
that
-Original Message-
From: Alex Hayes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 2:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Cooker] Idea for new utility
AppDrake or InstallDrake
utility would take a .tar, .tar.gz, etc. uncompress it into a temp
directory, run through
Alex Hayes wrote:
AppDrake or InstallDrake
utility would take a .tar, .tar.gz, etc. uncompress it into a temp
directory, run through the ./configure, make and make install, or
alternatively running an install.sh or other script. even for those of us
who have no problem installing
- My opinion - Its a very good idea!
There is a point: Not all source package tarballs have this sequences of
building: ./configure; make; make install
and most of the time we need to be root for the install step.
you do NOT need to be root to build RPMs, it is a _very_ bad idea,
- Original Message -
From: Geoffrey Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 8:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Cooker] Idea for new utility
- My opinion - Its a very good idea!
There is a point: Not all source package tarballs have this sequences of
building
e.g. mknod
Strange ...
You are talking about RPMs, I was talking about tgz source
tarballs ... uh?
wtf is that ?
I think you don't really understand what Alex was talking about
or you don't care about the idea...
Is your reply only to tell that it's not a good idea or what ?
oh
On Mon, 22 May 2000, you wrote:
AppDrake or InstallDrake
utility would take a .tar, .tar.gz, etc. uncompress it into a temp
directory, run through the ./configure, make and make install, or
alternatively running an install.sh or other script. even for those of us
who have no problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 8:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Cooker] Idea for new utility
- My opinion - Its a very good idea!
There is a point: Not all source package tarballs have this sequences of
building: ./configure; make; make install
and most
.
Serge Lussier wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Geoffrey Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 8:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Cooker] Idea for new utility
- My opinion - Its a very good idea!
There is a point: Not all source package tarballs
Serge Lussier wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Geoffrey Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think you don't really understand what Alex was talking about
or you don't care about the idea...
Is your reply only to tell that it's not a good idea or what ?
Regards,
Serge Lussier
Well,
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Idea for new utility
I think a utility that would ./configure , make , build rpm,
install rpm, is
what is needed, that way you can more easily uninstall the
program and check
dependencies of other programs that might need this program.
i see
i've downloaded __.tar.gz, now what do i do to install?"
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From: Linux Frog [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Idea for new utility
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 21:48:35 -0400
On Mon, 22 May 2000, y
Geoffrey Lee wrote:
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Idea for new utility
I think a utility that would ./configure , make , build rpm,
install rpm, is
what is needed, that way you can more easily uninstall the
program and check
dependencies of other programs that might need this program
rpm builder has been hacked heavily ... prob need some ppl to
test for me.
Ok then,
Let say that its a bit complicated and there is
already a work making its way...
However, It seems to be an interresting point :-)
I am sure something could be done.
yop
For myself:
All this
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