Re: rpm port from FreeBSD / port behavior question

[Mike Hardy <mhardy@smithsonite.rice.edu>]

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Andre Lucas wrote:

> Ok, I guess most of the time I'm installing pretty standard stuff on
> Linux so I don't see it. I must say, though, that I've never seen a
> package install and show messages. Maybe I wasn't looking...

What I copied is a file called "INSTALL" from the pine package (I think).
Check it out, and how its called in the Makefile, and you can see what's
possible (with that files format being the standard? I guess)

If you do a `locate | grep INSTALL` you'll see a lot of packages that use
this mechanism to execute shell stuff and print messages. Not sure how
intricate they get with them though.

-Mike