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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Suggestion to allow easier maintainance of software distributed
From:       Michael Pye <mdpye () ntlworld ! com>
Date:       2004-01-09 11:39:26
Message-ID: 200401091139.26579.mdpye () ntlworld ! com
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On Thursday 08 January 2004 23:36, een3sae@leeds.ac.uk wrote:

> Why not add extra functionality to KConfigure so that Kconfigure can
> automatically add an entry to the RPM database when a user compiles and
> installs an applications distributed as a source tarball? Surely the
> necessary destination filepaths to which files are copied during
> installation should be contained in the shell scripts executed when a
> user/KConfigure does a "make install"? If this script could be processed
> automatically by KConfigure upon installation and an entry added to the RPM
> database AUTOMATICALLY this would make software maintainance for your end
> user much easier for software distributed as tarballs - he/she could use
> the package manager to remove/ upgrade the software.

Do not most of the tarballs come with an RPM spec file anyway? Creating an RPM 
from them should be trivial.

MP

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