On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 20:59, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > David Fitch wrote: > > So the non-interactive rule can't be turned off somewhere? > > I can see the benefits of non-interactive installs but this > > rpm is going to be a fairly limited release. Sounds like > > another limitation of the rpm format. > > It's a feature!
ah yeah (various comparisons with other OSs spring to mind here about forcing you do something the "one true way" but in the interests of such a rant not being very helpful I'll refrain from going on about it) > If you really really really MUST have some interaction > before using, then you can have your rpm install a > non-working version, and all have your commands return > something like > > Please run "david-fitch-app --setup" > > before anything works properly. hmm well won't work in this case, looks like I'll have to provide an install script and pack the lot up as a tarball. Hardly worth making an rpm really. Thanks anyway, Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
