On 20/08/05, Paul Pogonyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, a question for you as a packager. I have a file `README-PACKAGERS' > describing possible installation of Quarry with GNU Go (or anything else) > already in the engines list. I'm completely unfamiliar with packaging > system and now I wonder if it is possible within existing frameworks (Red > Hat/Fedora, Debian, ...)? Not that I expect it to happen even if possible, > it's not quite as important as configuring `httpd', for instance ;) >
Sounds possible - in the %post section of a RPM spec file you could run a script that queries if GNU Go is installed, say, rpm -q gnugo which should return gnugo-3.6-3 (for example), and then it's just a matter of parsing the output to determine the program version. Problem with this approach is that, it only works if the user installed gnugo *before* installing quarry. How about having multiple packages - the quarry program in one package, then have support packages like quarry-gnugo which would depend on quarry and gnugo. Writing the configuration file would be easier if quarry itself supports a non-interactive configuration-generating mode, like: quarry --gen-config "gnugo --mode gtp --quiet" > /usr/share/quarry/quarry.cfg Thoughts? -- Michel Salim ζζΊε http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~msalim
