[Freegis-list] FreeGIS on RedHat 7.1

[Daniel Tourde]

Hi Andreas,


> i once tried to build a re-locatable GRASS rpm. But this does not work
> right now, there are internal requirements of GRASS that prevent this
> (e. g. hardcoded paths in driver setup files).

But Grass5 been still a beta version, wouldn't it be nice to make it
freely relocatable? RedHat is not such an uncommon distribution and I am
sure I am not the only one willing to have a clean RPM for this
distribution. Mandrake uses also RPMs and other ones... An RPM that
would compile correctly, install at once cleanly and work smoothly
without having to hack and fix parameters here and there would be great.

 
> It will not be possible to put the man etc. directories under the fssntd
> locations, as all these directories must reside under the grass main
> directory for the grass modules to be able to find the files. Please
> look at the sources and documentation of grass to find out more.

OK. Are you telling me that simply changing from /opt/grass to /usr
would create problems?

 
> Why not creating a setup with symbolic links? Link your /opt residing
> under / to /usr/opt and move over any directories already there.

Yes but this is exactly the kind of things I want to avoid. I don't want
to modify /etc files to add paths here and there. I have several
machines, I upgrade them regularly and RedHat has a tendency to move
things around (documentation for instance). This would be a pain in the
ass to be forced to hack and check again and again every 6 months. I
definitely prefer RPMs sticking to the RedHat structure when they are
recompiled.

 
		Daniel
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