On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:15:47PM +, Valent Turkovic wrote:
On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:52:09 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
There is a nice document on the Fedora wiki describing the process:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote:
...snip...
The HP inkjet drivers (HPLIP) is one example of a fire and forget
installer that just detects where am I? what platform is this? what
compilers do I have available? is the build environment safe? are the
2009/9/17 Aldo Foot luni...@gmail.com:
Linux desktops and servers have their individual
fingerprint just as every human hand has their own fingerprints.
And when they start showing common patterns, we either call them a bug
or a feature. Sorry couldn't help myself ;)
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Open source
Fernando Cassia wrote:
The HP inkjet drivers (HPLIP) is one example of a fire and forget
installer that just detects where am I? what platform is this? what
compilers do I have available? is the build environment safe? are the
additional required packages available? (if not it fetches those),
On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:52:09 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
There is a nice document on the Fedora wiki describing the process:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
This is far, far from simple page :(
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:15:47PM +, Valent Turkovic wrote:
On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:52:09 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
There is a nice document on the Fedora wiki describing the process:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
This is far, far from simple page
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 19:15 +, Valent Turkovic wrote:
On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:52:09 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
There is a nice document on the Fedora wiki describing the process:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
This is far, far from simple page :(
Then
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Jussi Lehtola
jussileht...@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 19:15 +, Valent Turkovic wrote:
On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:52:09 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
There is a nice document on the Fedora wiki describing the process:
Fernando Cassia wrote:
It is just RIDICULOUS not to have an automated way to create RPMs.
Feel free to write such a tool. Those that exist have various fatal
flaws. I'd certainly never use checkinstall on my system nor would I
want anyone producing rpms with it for inclusion in Fedora. :)
If
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com wrote:
Fernando Cassia wrote:
It is just RIDICULOUS not to have an automated way to create RPMs.
Feel free to write such a tool. Those that exist have various fatal
flaws. I'd certainly never use checkinstall on my system nor
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 22:24 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Todd Zullinger t...@pobox.com wrote:
Fernando Cassia wrote:
It is just RIDICULOUS not to have an automated way to create RPMs.
Feel free to write such a tool. Those that exist have various fatal
Fernando Cassia wrote:
Could you please tell what is wrong with checkinstall other than it
sucks ??
The biggest problem with checkinstall is that it requires you to run
it as root. If you've taken a look at many of the Makefiles shipped
with a lot of software, you'd be very cautious about
Fernando Cassia wrote:
It is just RIDICULOUS not to have an automated way to create RPMs. If
I can download some source file, and then ./configure make and make
install, this automated tool is perfectly capable of finding the base
system, the files installed during the process, and the
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote:
Fernando Cassia wrote:
It is just RIDICULOUS not to have an automated way to create RPMs. If
I can download some source file, and then ./configure make and make
install, this automated tool is perfectly capable of finding
Hi,
I haven't made rpm package from source a looong time ;)
The procedure used to be very simple:
./configure
make
checkinstall make install
Now I see there in no checkinstall in Fedora. What is the way to
simple make a rpm packet?
Cheers!
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On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 14:53 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
Hi,
I haven't made rpm package from source a looong time ;)
The procedure used to be very simple:
./configure
make
checkinstall make install
Now I see there in no checkinstall in Fedora. What is the way to
simple make a rpm
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Valent Turkovic
valent.turko...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
I haven't made rpm package from source a looong time ;)
The procedure used to be very simple:
./configure
make
checkinstall make install
Now I see there in no checkinstall in Fedora. What is the way to
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Valent
Turkovicvalent.turko...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I haven't made rpm package from source a looong time ;)
The procedure used to be very simple:
./configure
make
checkinstall make install
Now I see there in no checkinstall in Fedora. What is the way to
Valent Turkovic wrote:
I haven't made rpm package from source a looong time ;)
The procedure used to be very simple:
./configure
make
checkinstall make install
Ewww, checkinstall is _not_ recommended¹ (and never was by anyone
worth listening to as far as I am concerned).
What is the way
Honza 'thingwath' Bartoš wrote:
I'd just use template specfile in Fedora's vim distribution. (Just
type vim something.spec) It's almost (almost) as easy as
checkinstall (if the build is that simple, just plain autotools
without anything fancy), and you can reuse the specfile for newer
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