On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > To simplify the process, I'd like to put together a set of "installer > packages" based on the realplayer i386 package by Joey Hess and Brian > Russo. Each package would use debconf to prompt the user for the > location of the RPM, then use an included rpm2cpio to extract the files, > install them, and modify as necessary according to Thomas Weyergraf's > email instructions (see the debian-alpha archive, "compiling" thread > starting 10/25/2000), including stripping the libs (so the installers > depend on binutils).
Woohoo! Thank you for taking this one off of my "to do after sniffing glue" list :-P > I'd like for the installer to determine the processor type and abort if > inappropriate, but don't quite know how. Aside from that, I think it's > ready to go, and I'll put up a CXML version in the next day or two. > I'll upload by the end of the week if nobody gives a good reason not to. I may be able to help with this. Contact me off list tomorrow. I think I still have a small binary that can tell what CPU is in the machine that you can compile and use during packaging. C
