Re: OT: (but I do not know who ask for): buildin an RPM from scratch

2002-05-31 Thread Quentin Mason
> > I will write a mini setup program as Microsft does ;) > > Up to now I just "echo" out the instructions and the license (with a > line that sounds like 'using the software presumes you have accepted the > license terms at all" Intel's free compiler, Mathematica, and maple take the followi

Re: OT: (but I do not know who ask for): buildin an RPM from scratch

2002-05-31 Thread Miguel Beccari
Rick Thomas wrote: >When the script is run by rpm, it probably has input redirected from >/dev/null. As the docs say, it should be non-interactive. Anything else >will break scripted installations. > > > > Yes. It is so. In fact I used something like %pre $bashscript = /tmp/myfile echo "#!

Re: OT: (but I do not know who ask for): buildin an RPM from scratch

2002-05-31 Thread Miguel Beccari
Stew Benedict wrote: >Are you saying the script behave differently in the RPM than if you just >run it? I would do something a little more bulletproof, which would force >them to answer one of your choices, unless they ctrl-C out of it: > > > > Yes (I am saying the script behave differently).

Re: OT: (but I do not know who ask for): buildin an RPM from scratch

2002-05-31 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Miguel Beccari wrote: > I builded a RPM from scratch of an application of mine. > > The SRC rpm works: it builds 2 i586 architecture packages, it has got > good controls, it check dependecies and so on. > > My trouble is this: how to force the user to answer some question

Re: OT: (but I do not know who ask for): buildin an RPM from scratch

2002-05-31 Thread Miguel Beccari
Miguel Beccari wrote: > > > %pre > > echo "Bla bla bla."; > echo -n "Answer (yes | no | later)"; > read chiave > while ( test -z $chiave ); do >read chiave > done; > OK. In the docs I read: There are certain caveats about these scripts which you should take into account. Number on