[hpoj-devel] More details about RedHat SRPM file

[Timothy L. <ti...@wo...>]

I've including a copy of the latest SRPM spec file for anyone
interested.

Joe Piolunek wrote:

> Re your SRPM - can you make it relocatable?
>

Yes, the resultant RPM file is relocatable.

During installation of the RPM, the user can use the --prefix flag to
adjust the location of the files, eg:

     rpm -U --prefix /usr/local hpoj-0.7-2.rpm

David Paschal wrote:

> One problem I see with this layout is that the $PREFIX/share/pixmaps/hpoj
> directory is missing, which contains pixmaps required by xojpanel.
>

Oops...  I did miss those....  Probably because my PSC500 can't be used
with xojpanel, so I never noticed...  <laugh>

OK, that's fixed.

David Paschale wrote:

> > Note that I've relocated ieee12844.o and ieee12844pp.o to
> > /lib/modules/boot.  This way, they will be picked up by depmod at boot.
> > I'm tempted to insert the *alias* entries into conf.modules for the user
> > during installation, what's your opinion?
> What are the alias entries?
>

The RPM now inserts these two entries into conf.modules (or modules.conf
if it exists):

     alias net-pf-24 ieee12844
     alias mlclink-mlcpp0 ieee12844

These entries correlates to the *ptal-printd.conf* file that comes with
the RPM.  I have left out the alias for parport_lowlevel, since hpoj is
intended to be cross-platform.  The user must add that entry manually,
depending on the machine architecture.

During uninstall, those exact two entries will be removed from
modules.conf.


     Timothy