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X-Original-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:45:31 -0700
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:45:31 -0700
Well, thanks everyone for the explanations. I still disagree with the
reasoning, but it seems this is one of those philosophical questions
that I'm on the losing end of :)
The checkinstall utility that someone mentioned seems useful, but I
don't really have the time to figure it out right now. After searching
the web some more, I found out that Mandrake's version of rpm is
patched to support what I wanted. So I guess I'll look into that when
I get a chance.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:14:47PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Do nothing in the %build section, and copy the existing binaries
> in %install.
As far as I can tell, this could be useful for my situation too. It's
not a complete solution since I can't really distribute the SRPMS with
full certainty that they work, but at least I can make RPMS for local
use by tarring up the buildroot directory and then using the above
technique. All I really want is to get dependency tracking for
everything installed on my system (including software from cvs). This
just makes it a little bit faster.
gary
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