Yo Eric! On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 23:32:09 -0500 "Eric S. Raymond via devel" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hal Murray <[email protected]>: > > > > [email protected] said: > > >> Why would we want to do a distro install? > > > Because it makes life easier for overworked upstream packagers. > > > By a "distro install" I mean one to rootspace (normally /usr) > > > rather than /usr/local. > > > > How does that help anybody package things up? > > > > Do they have tools that extract new stuff from /usr/ and turn it > > into a package? Does that also get things like /etc/ntp.conf? > > At least in RPM-land, they like to use the package's own make install > when possible. I don't see how that is possible. I'm looking at the Fedora doc now: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package They say DO NOT install the packages as root. So installing into /usr is just not gonna be possible. The aboce link specifically says to install the softwaer to be packaged into a packaging work directory. RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 [email protected] Tel:+1 541 382 8588 Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas? "If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it." - Lord Kelvin
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