Re: [jokosher-devel] Moving icons

["Jeff Ratliff" <jefrat gmail com>]

On 26/09/06, Daniel Holbach <daniel holbach ubuntu com> wrote:
> Hello Chris,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 26.09.2006, 14:06 +0100 schrieb Chris Brown:
> > I imagine its still there. This is for fedora however. My concerns
> > (which I expressed in reply to that original mail) were that I could
> > not see a way in which uninstallation was catered for. I'm also a
> > little hesitant (perhaps unecessarily) at running a setup script as
> > root without knowing exactly what the whole thing does. Its looks fine
> > but will need to be maintained and I dont think its the right method
> > for installing an app as essentially its defining a new method of
> > software installation, no?
>
> the process of building the package in Ubuntu/Debian and maybe even in
> the .rpm world makes use of the setup.py (to install files into the
> package). You're right, the package manager (dpkg for Debian/Ubuntu) and
> rpm do take care of the de-installation.
This is how it's supposed to work with RPMs as well.

rpmbuild should either 'make && make install' or run a setup script.
Custom installing everything file by file in the spec file is a last
resort. That approach means doing it separately for each distro (which
is something I thought we were trying to avoid).

Using the setup script in the spec file do the install will make it
trivial to 'rpmbuild --rebuild' on any RPM based distro. It also means
the spec file doesn't have to be rewritten every time an important
file changes places.


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Jeff Ratliff (Gomer_X)