Re: rpm port from FreeBSD / port behavior question

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

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Mike Hardy wrote:

> 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.

Sorry to reply to myself, but I just realized I'm talking at
cross-purposes with you.

I think you were referring to RPMs using shell stuff. It is indeed
possible - you can download the text to "Maximum RPM" and find out how -
its not too bad.

My pointer up above is for OpenBSD - the INSTALL file is the standard
mechanism to do it here, I think. (someone please correct me if I'm wrong)

-Mike