Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot statistics

[<jca...@in...>]

On Thursday 07 February 2002 22:30, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
| > On Thursday 07 February 2002 8:43 pm, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
| > > So far, no bugs have been reported for 5.1.0.
| >
| > I'm not sure if this is a bug, I configured --prefix=3D/usr/local,
| > then "make -n install" gives:
| >
| > ...
| > cp -p -a plmodule.so /usr/local//usr/lib/python2.0//site-packages
| > cp -p -a pyqt_plmodule.so
| > /usr/local//usr/lib/python2.0//site-packages
|
| Looks like YACP, yet another configuration problem.  That extra
| /usr in the middle of the path shouldn't be there.  If I specify
| either /usr/local/plplot or /usr for the prefix everything works
| fine.
|
| > I have been looking at the distributed rpm specs files, and I
| > found that they specify /usr as the install point.
|
| That's standard for all rpms and also debs.  In Linux distributions
| /usr/local is reserved for tarball installs *not* under rpm (or
| deb) control and /usr is reserved for debs and rpms.  Those who use
| a prefix of /usr for tarball installs or a /usr/local prefix for
| rpm or deb installs get what they deserve....;-)

Like me, when I made an automatic upgrade in my linux box, just to=20
find that (of course) the upgrade had upgraded just the distro=20
packages, not the manually installed rpm ones? And then searching for=20
all them... it would be much easier if they were in /usr/local -- or=20
if I had a separate rpm database just for them.

But I don't see the point in installing rpms under /usr -- there must=20
exist some reasoning behind that?

I have yet another rpm question. With dyndrivers, we can make rpm=20
with all available drivers, without having to worry if the user=20
system has the necessary libs or not! Of course the user will not be=20
able to use those drivers, but it will not hurt, and if the user=20
latter install the extra packages the drivers will be there. Correct?

Joao