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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl•org>
To: Paul Dickson <paul@permanentmail•com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl•org>, pasky@ucw•cz, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-pasky spec file
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:21:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050425222151.GM493@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050425142411.1849a5db.paul@permanentmail.com>

* Paul Dickson (paul@permanentmail•com) wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:48:34 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> 
> > * Petr Baudis (pasky@ucw•cz) wrote:
> > > Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 03:55:21AM CEST, I got a letter
> > > where Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl•org> told me that...
> > > > Here's a simple spec file to do rpm builds.  It's against the
> > > > latest Makefile (which has the s/BINDIR/bindir/ change).  I've used
> > > > DESTDIR, although it's not clear it's meant to stay in the Makefile.
> > > > For now, there's no dynamic (git.spec.in, for example) update to the
> > > > Version, so it's set against 0.6.3 (expecting it to be forthcoming
> > > > shortly).  It installs to /usr/local/bin, and expects the tarball to be
> > > > named git-pasky-0.6.3.tar.bz2.  Creates a package named git, which seems
> > > > fine since Linus' isn't likely to be packaged directly.  Enjoy.
> > > 
> > > Thanks, applied. I'll gladly yet you maintain this file, but...
> > 
> > No problem...
> > 
> > > > --- /dev/null	1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
> > > > +++ git-pasky-0.6.3/git.spec	2005-04-21 18:42:18.000000000 -0700
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
> > > > +%install
> > > > +rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> > > > +make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/ bindir=bin/ install
> > > 
> > > I doubt this is actually what you want. I suppose you want
> > > 
> > > make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT prefix=/usr/local install
> > 
> > Yup, that makes more sense.  Feel free to update if you're so inclined.
> 
> If you're building an RPM, it should go in /usr not /usr/local.  /usr/local
> is for unmanaged (non-RPM) installs.

That's not quite the definition for FHS, but I don't mind putting into
/usr/bin.  I had planned upon doing a /usr/bin/git and helpers in
another directory, but with new command name (ala cg-$cmd) then I think
they'll all just go in /usr/bin.  Other opinions?

thanks,
-chris

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-25 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-22  1:55 [PATCH] git-pasky spec file Chris Wright
2005-04-22  2:40 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-22  2:48   ` Chris Wright
2005-04-25 21:24     ` Paul Dickson
2005-04-25 22:21       ` Chris Wright [this message]
2005-04-22  3:13   ` [PATCH] Eliminate use of mktemp's "-t" option David A. Wheeler
2005-04-22 14:16 ` [PATCH] git-pasky spec file Kevin Smith
2005-04-22 15:21   ` Chris Wright

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