RPM Installation

I'm working on the RPM package currently and so far it's been going well with a couple interesting hitches that I'm working thru. RPM's seem to want to install only inside of a small number of directories: /usr/bin, /usr/man/, etc and getting the files into other directories, so far as I can see, is left up to post-install scripts.

Other issues are more boring - I still haven't gotten my redhat box upgraded to FC2 so that I can test the RPM's on clean systems to make sure no dependencies are missing - that problem will be solved monday when I get a new hard-drive to replace the failed drive I had thought I could use for FC2

RPM's also assume that the binary information is built by RPM running configure, make, etc -- but Chandler already has that being done and the binary tarball is more than adequate so the .spec file is looking mighty slim

The one item that I'm currently researching is how to recognize during the install that the target is /usr/foo instead of /home/foo and adjust accordingly - otherwise Chandler will be getting installed into a directory tree that the user may not have write permissions and therefore the repository will not get created correctly. Again something that getting my FC2 box up will help solve.

-- MikeT - 06 Dec 2004