Re: [Fink-devel] OT (sort of): Help with a binary requiring a library

[Jared]

Thanks for the info. Do you think /usr/local will be OK? Otherwise, I could us something else like /usr/custom or /usr/hw (from hotway). Is that acceptable? I don't want to go against the grain on how unix apps and libraries should be installed.

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 08:12 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:

My understanding is that PackageMaker can only install things into a single
tree, whose "root" (= starting point) can either be predetermined by you or
selected by the user. Since you want things to go into a predetermined
location, you'll make that choice. You will need to create a tarball which
will get installed into /usr (or wherever you choose) and has subdirectories
like lib, include, and bin.

I tried something like that before, where I made my root "/" and then made myself a tree with usr/sbin/hotwayd and etc/xinetd.d/hotwayd as files to be installed. Well, it ended up wiping out my symlink of /etc and replacing it with an actual directory, /etc/ with only one file in it (xinetd.d) and one file inside that. Luckily, it was unable to wipe out /usr because I mistakenly forgot to give it root privileges (difference between root and admin wasn't clear at the time). Do you think if I had given it root privileges that it would have installed *in* /etc and *in* /usr or would it have gone overboard and trashed /usr as well?

-Jared




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