Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] Packaging Standards Redux

[Tony B. <tb...@gm...>]

I agree with John and having standards.

Ram - I don't think we should start allowing package installs all over the
place. This is asking for a huge headache.


On 4/8/06, Sriram Durbha <sri...@gm...> wrote:
>
> you are right on the target john.it is much easier to support if we know
> where all the files are going to be installed. and much better if they ar=
e
> in a standard place for al packages.
>
> On a related note..  Most of the time i install to a local directory.  i
> hate to pollute the root .
> especially because it becomes difficult to uninstall if the package doesn=
t
> have a good uninstall rule in the make file.
>
> One thing we can do to simplify things is allow installpkg to be run as
> non root user also.
>
> If we are going to go the length,   shall we as well ask the user a
> question like
> " Install for all users or install for current user only ?" and proceed
> appropriately to install in the user's $HOME or /
>
> The tree for the packge remains the sme but is located differently.
> the local log of packages like in /var/log/packages .. will also have a
> corresponding local version in $HOME
>
> To help this
> we could have a list of packages and their options ..  something like thi=
s
> ..
> http://numsum.com/spreadsheet/show/17688
> and create the ./configue  commands from that for all the packages for th=
e
> default install.
>
> cheers
> ram
>
>
>
>
> On 4/7/06, joh...@gm... <joh...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > Some programs create their configuration files in an etc directory. I
> > have
> > seen some packages where such an etc directory was a subdirectory under
> > /usr
> > or /usr/X11R6. Since we are discussing standards for building packages
> > with
> > VL6, I believe that one of the arguments that should be passed to just
> > about
> > all configure scripts is --sysconfdir=3D/etc as opposed to letting the
> > sysconfdir setting default to a sub under --prefix=3D/usr.
> >
> > While I'm on this thread, some programs also create local data, notably
> > dbus,
> > hal, and samba, among others. I want to propose that we explicitly pass
> > --localstatedir=3D/var to the configure script for such programs where
> > local
> > state data is created.
> >
> > Thoughts on these ideas, please.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
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