On 25 April 2000, Mark W. Alexander said:
If I'm following the --package-prefix theme properly, it's very much in line with RPM's BUILDROOT, and install tree used for 2 very important reasons. First, the package builder need not be root to produce a binary package that installs in directories that only root can write to. Second, it provides for relocatable binary RPM's.
Yeah, I think Harry and you won, although I implemented it differently from Harry's --package-prefix patch. Try "install --root=/tmp" and see how it works for you. (It works for me)!
While I'm still catching up here: Has anyone stepped up to do either Solaris bdist-pkgtool or HP-UX bdist-depot? If not, it looks like a good way for me to start wading in.
No, please wade right in. You might want to wait a few days until I have fixed "bdist_dumb" to use the latest changes to "install", and until Harry and I agree on what "bdist_rpm" should look like. Or go ahead and start playing around, but be prepared to hack your "bdist_xxx" commands up when I change my mind about how things should look. Yeah, on second thought, start playing around... rearranging Python code is cheap. Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix geek gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ And I wonder ... will Elvis take the place of Jesus in a thousand years? -- Dead Kennedys