On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:31:55AM +1000, Graeme Nichols said: > It would be *very* handy if all application tarballs had a 'make uninstall' > option. Only very few bother to include such an option at the moment so it > is a find as find can exercise to remove all the old bits and pieces of an > application before installing a new version.
clamav has the uninstall target in it's Makefiles. > Another *feature* that very few developers include in their source tarballs > in a spec file. If they did then one could build an rpm binary package > extremely simply using the command rpmbuild -tb [tarball name]. However, it > does mean extra work and testing for the developers who are doing it in > their own time. The biggest problem in this scenario is the huge number of > distros all doing their own thing, putting files in their own places and not > based on a core standard. It would be easy if all distros were based around > a core standard and their own bells and whistles added around that core > standard. *Perhaps* then a standard spec file would work on all distros but > I guess this is a simplistic view by someone who uses my system as a working > tool rather than a thing to experiment with. I personally dislike it when upstream keeps a debian/ directory. It is usally out of date from what I am currently shipping, and it actually makes the diff larger and less readable in most cases. > Moral of the story? If your system is based on a package manager, such as > Fedora, then stick to it if at all possible. I'd almost always agree, but clamav is a fairly simple package to install from source if you can't find decent rpms. The simplest approach to making the work would be to dedicate a directory to keeping the source lying around, and then keep a file somewhere outside of that source tree with the ./configure flags. That way, you can easily uninstall or rerun the build with the same flags. Take care, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | BOFH excuse #108: The air conditioning | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | water supply pipe ruptured over the | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | machine room | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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