Jules,
I think it is of interest for more people so I answer to the list.
On Sun, Nov 05, Jules Duiker wrote:
> What I mean with half the job is the fact, that I cannot install my
> parameters. If I read the FBB manual, there should be an INSTALL.SH to
> configur FBB. When I'm using YAST to
> install, it only makes a few directories, and thats it. What I mean is;
> should I do all
> changes by hand, or is there someting wrong with yast?? There is no
> INSTALL.SH or something like that. How can I configur it to work?? Is
> there an other way of doing things? I think it's hard to believe that I
> have to do everything by hand, so I suspect
> I'm doing something, or Yast doesn't install the RPM the proper way....
> System here is: intel based, 64meg, SuSE 7.0!
Well, that is generally a problem of many software packages available for
ham purposes. Most of them are programmed to be installed manually by the
user into the /usr/local/ directories. Most of them provide an
installation script or something similar for this.
But this is not the way one can deal with when using rpm archives. As a
package maintainer I cannot install the package with customized
configuration files. This is something that has to happen afterwards,
e.g. with an alternative configuration script or something else. Some
parts of the functionality of Jean-Paul's INSTALL.SH are covered by the
rpm archive, especially creating the needed directories. So we cannot call
the script while runtime because it would fail to create directories.
We are thinking about a global solution for many of the ham
packages, providing YaST2 modules for configuration. But due to missing
manpower this is nothing we can do right now, sorry!
Jean-Paul, Vojtech, do you have ideas how to handle this problem?
Regards, Kai
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