Thanks Eric and Andreas. On 9/18/12, Eric Noulard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/9/17 hce <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> I need to add an interfactive license agreement to an RPM package when it >> is >> installed in Linux terminal (not GUI), it should display the license and >> asked whether the user agree or not. I noticed from cmake 2.8.8 document >> there is CPACK_RESOURCE_FILE_LICENSE may produce such process, am I >> right? > > This is the right way to do it but... > >> If I am wrong, how can I make it work with cmake / cpack? > > This is not supported by CPack RPM, we could include the license text > file as a %doc file but.. > > ..it is usually a bad idea to include interactivity (i.e. install time > question) in an RPM, > because most of the time no-one will be there to answer it: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2132828/adding-license-agreement-in-rpm-package > > (see licensing guidelines of RPM based distros as well: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines > http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Licensing) > > On Debian dpkg sometimes ask question but there is a mean to avoid > them of provide default answers in a 'non-interactive' way: > http://serverfault.com/questions/84521/automate-dpkg-reconfigure-tzdata > > > That said, with CPackRPM > you may use CPACK_RPM_PRE_INSTALL_SCRIPT_FILE > see: > cpack --help-variable CPACK_RPM_PRE_INSTALL_SCRIPT_FILE > > in order to launch a pre-install script that may ask a question. > > An appropriate alternative would be to pop-up the license agreement at > some other point: > - Before downloading the RPM > - On the first run of the installed software > - ... > > -- > Erk > Le gouvernement représentatif n'est pas la démocratie -- > http://www.le-message.org > --
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