Re: Alternate places to install specialized binaries

2016-06-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:30:47PM -, Alec Leamas wrote: > testing this on-line reply thing... > > I guess the java tools are either scripts or java code i. e., > architecture-independent. I just presume Rich's tools are compiled code which > cannot live in /usr/share for that reason.

Re: Alternate places to install specialized binaries

2016-06-10 Thread Alec Leamas
testing this on-line reply thing... I guess the java tools are either scripts or java code i. e., architecture-independent. I just presume Rich's tools are compiled code which cannot live in /usr/share for that reason. But... to presume is a bad habit. Cheers! --alec -- devel mailing list

Re: Alternate places to install specialized binaries

2016-06-10 Thread Alec Leamas
On 10/06/16 14:01, Sérgio Basto wrote: (3) Rename them and put them in %{_bindir}. This is technically difficult, because the binaries have manual pages which would all have to be patched to refer to the new names. Rich. What if you rename them, and instead of patching the manpages

Re: Alternate places to install specialized binaries

2016-06-10 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Qui, 2016-06-09 at 12:59 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I maintain a package which comes with some benchmarking tools.  I > would like to package these, but they have very generic names like > "boot-benchmark", "analysis".  Also the tools are very specialized -- > you would only want them

Re: Alternate places to install specialized binaries

2016-06-10 Thread Jonny Heggheim
Hi Rich. On 9 June 2016 at 12:59, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I maintain a package which comes with some benchmarking tools. I > would like to package these, but they have very generic names like > "boot-benchmark", "analysis". Also the tools are very specialized -- > you

Re: Alternate places to install specialized binaries

2016-06-09 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I maintain a package which comes with some benchmarking tools. I > would like to package these, but they have very generic names like > "boot-benchmark", "analysis". Also the tools are very specialized -- > you

Alternate places to install specialized binaries

2016-06-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I maintain a package which comes with some benchmarking tools. I would like to package these, but they have very generic names like "boot-benchmark", "analysis". Also the tools are very specialized -- you would only want them if you already know you need them. I wonder if people have opinions