If you have to build from source (or just want to) use checkinstall and get all the advantages of an rpm's install/uninstall/file tracking!
aka: tar xvzf something.tar.gz make make test su root checkinstall make install It works for almost all programs, bind from sources is one of the few that it didn't work with. Note: I have no idea how "distributable" the resulting rpm is, but it works good for installing software on to production servers when they don't have a compiler installed. I'm not sure others on the net would want to use them thou... (Best to stick w/ good mdk rpm's if you can.) - Jason B. On Friday 28 June 2002 10:27 am, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Or...how about adding a ports system to Mandrake that can reside alongside > RPM? I believe that ports, ported from the *BSD world, is what several > newer linux kids on the block use, like Gentoo. > > The main reason I like RPMs at all vs simple tarballs is the database that > knows it was installed and can easily upgrade or remove said package. > Tarballs are easy to lose track of and, of course, there is no system > database holding information on what tarballs have been installed where (of > course, RPM doesn't do a job at all on where either - a weakness). > > Or...can the Mandrake RPM system be modified to allow for installation of > tarballs and have an install added/tracked by some hack of RPM? > > In any case, if you need/want this app, you do not NEED an RPM, just get > the tarball and install it. You will be able to use it just fine. Most > scientific/specialty software I need can only be had in tarball form anyway > and they work for me just fine. Have you tried building the source and > failed? USUALLY it is as simple as 1) ./configure <with/without some > switch>, 2) "make", and 3) "make install". I have only rarely come across > some wierdo code that doesn't have a config script or simple means of > building the source. If you have tried and failed to build the source > already, what did you do and what were the error messages? > > praedor > > On Thursday 27 June 2002 03:01 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thursday 27 June 2002 8:26 pm, Jan Lentfer wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > i would like to ask Mandrake to add a package to their distribution. > > > Can anyone tell me how to do this? > > > > > > In particular I want them to add "kaptain" > > > (http://kaptain.sourceforge.net/) as a package. That's a programm > > > that provides graphical interfaces to command line programs using > > > grammar files. It is widley used to controll the EMBOSS > > [...] > > > Producing RPMs is difficult - the problem is getting a generic install > > which will work on all machines. (A lot of non-Mandrake packages fail > > here). > > [...]
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