Re: info & Setup & RPM

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 08:34:31AM +1000, David O'Shea wrote:
>On Thu, 4 May 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> Actually, by default setup.exe installs everything.  If someone chooses not
>> to install a complete installation and then is surprised when they do
>> an "info gcc" and find that gcc is not available, I'm not going to be
>> incredibly sympathetic.
>> 
>> However, if you want to submit a patch to setup.c, I'll certainly consider
>> it.
>
>I checked a few RPMs from Red Hat Linux (now I've learned that there's a
>space in Red Hat) and noted that they just have postinstall scripts that
>run install-info.  Maybe a similar sort of thing could be done here,
>except just by having a special file in the .tar.gz file which setup
>executes (and which can do any kind of specialised setup that is required
>for that package).  Does anyone know if the FreeBSD or Slackware package
>formats (both use .tar.gz, right?) have any sort of feature like this?
>Maybe a port of pkg_add or something would be useful, then (I seem to
>remember seeing something about that in the archives).
>
>..or maybe we could have a custom version of the Red Hat installer (okay,
>sorry, I know I shouldn't make suggestions like that unless I've got the
>time to do it myself!).

Especially after quoting a message where I tried to subtly make this very
point...

cgf

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