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Re: More an autopackage
- To: "Derek R. Price" <derek dot price at openavenue dot com>
- Subject: Re: More an autopackage
- From: Harlan Stenn <Harlan dot Stenn at pfcs dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:03:47 -0500
- Cc: Geoffrey Wossum <gpw0341 at omega dot uta dot edu>,Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>, tromey at redhat dot com,automake at gnu dot org, Harlan dot Stenn at pfcs dot com
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Are there several issues here?
The package maintainer has the package to worry about.
Another "hat" might wrap packages for installers, including templates for a
variety of sources (like RPMs, the FreeBSD ports collection, etc).
The last "hat" would take these packages, possibly build them, and then
install them according to the local paradigm. In fact, this last "hat"
might well package (parts?) of things up one more time, for unpackaging on a
per-user basis. I have to do this at one site that does automated testing.
An example of this last case is apache, which gets installed in a
version-specific subdirectory and then each test user gets a small subdir in
their home directory that contains an httpd.conf file (with a per-user port
for the webserver) and a customized start/stop script.
H