majordomo2 packaging (gentoo as an example)
Michael Weiser <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:04:07 +0100
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Hi list, I've installed mj2 on my Gentoo system and it runs nicely. I really like the idea of reusing my majordomo knowledge with a state of the art version that's actually maintained. To avoid (re)installation confusion I created a portage package for it. Unfortunately the installation routine assumes to be installing into the final runtime directory. Most packaging systems for Linux (rpm, portage, debian?) use an intermediary image directory to install into, then create the package from it and install the package into the runtime system. The de-facto standard for this is to use the DESTDIR make/environment variable. This is supported by perl's MakeMaker but not the postinstall script. So I did some ugly hacks to get it to work. Please find the outcome attached to this email for consideration. Now I'm wondering if there's already a better way to do this or someone'd be willing to clean up my mess and include it into upstream. -- Thanks in advance, Michael
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