[hpoj-devel] SuSE RPMs (for HP OffJet) & sugg: rename ptal -> POrTAL

[Jarl F. <ja...@di...>]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, David Paschal wrote:

> Hi, Jarl.
> 
> Yes, it might be more appropriate to put daemons such as ptal-printd in
> ${prefix}/sbin, particularly as I add more daemons.  I'll take a look at
> your attachments later because I can't seem to decode them with the mail
> client I'm using at the moment (not your fault).

Well, maybe a mailing list shouldn't be filled up with attachments in the
first place, so I've put them on:
http://213.237.48.227/~jarl/hpoj/

Notice hpoj is split into the conceptually different parts it contains

It may be down (turned off) some days, approx. every 10th to pick a
number, I'll put them somewhere more reliable soon.

> Timothy Lee has been working on a RedHat SRPM, so you might want to
> coordinate your efforts with his.  I would greatly prefer to post one
> .src.rpm file that works on all RPM-based distributions, but of course
> reality may dictate otherwise.  :-)

from what I can see RPM is not designed for that feature, in the SPEC file
part of the src.rpm you specify where to put files, i.e. SuSE put libs in
/usr/lib/ wheras RedHat puts them in /usr/local/lib

But from one spec-file it shouldn't be a big problem to make the other.

rename Suggestion:
What about using the name POrTAL (or just 'portal') for the concept now
know as ptal, POrTAL could be for Peripheral Oriented Transport
Abstraction Layer or something else with O, or did you get 'ptal' from
somewhere else? POrTAL is a little bit more pronounceable than ptal.

Jarl