> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Hayes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 2:41 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker] Idea for new utility
>
>
> AppDrake or InstallDrake
>
> utility would take a .tar, .tar.gz, etc. uncompress it into a temp
> directory, run through the ./configure, make and make install, or
> alternatively running an install.sh or other script. even for
> those of us
> who have no problem installing software, this would seem like a
> Good Thing.
you can use rpmbuilder. i'm currently hacking on this to bring it into
mandrake spec file compliance. it's not done yet, the one in cooker still
needs a buildroot, the one on my harddrive does have it, i'm thinking of
also doing a chnagelog it's a tcl (/usr/bin/wish) script, ...but i'm no tcl
expert ...but i should know enough to get by.
there's a certain difficulty here, because MOSTLY it means running
./configure --prefix=/usr, make and make prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr but it
doen't always wokr because of how different Makefiles behave :-/
mandrake uses bzip2 for better compression :-)
>
> i'm not a coder, so i can't implement this. perhaps there is someone Out
> There who has put such a utlity together?
>
> on another note, 7.1 is up with kde beta and xfree 4.0, and
> staroffice, and
> i am loving everything. default OS is now linux. you guys are
> kicking a$$.
>
> tres bien fait!
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