[Freegis-list] FreeGIS on RedHat 7.1

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 03:12:23PM +0200, Daniel Tourde wrote:

> > 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? 

Yes it would be nice.
However I am not sure it can be done easily.
Details should probably be discussed on the grass5 development list.
	http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grassdevel.html

> 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.

We from Intevation are constantly trying to improve the rpms
and we welcome any help and suggestions with this. 
IIRC /opt is the right place to install optional packages like GRASS
according to the LSB which requires FHS 2.2.

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

Yes.

> > 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. 

If you have additional application packages installed, you would
need to incoporate the /opt directory anyway. And the /opt was
designed to be on a different partition then / .

> 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.

I can understand this.
We are working hard to get usable rpms for the common distributions
for the Freegis CD.  It looks GRASS packageing will continue to have minor
flaws in the future due to the nature of GRASS.


	Bernhard
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