package creation

["Gustavo A. Baratto" <gbaratto at superb dot net>]

hello all,

 

I thought this was a very well requested feature, but I after searching on the mailing list archives, I found out that it is not...

 

Basically, what I looking for is a 'make package' rule, where all the files that would be installed, plus an install script could be tarred up together, so we can copy the tarball to many diferent servers, unpack it, run the script, and the files get installed without the need of copying over or nfs mounting the whole source code? Not a fancy full blown package like rpm.

 

Maybe the install script would have an uninstall feature as well (I have seen a thread requesting this).

 

I know nothing about automake except for running make,make install and make distclean... but I would be willing to help...