SOT Office 2002 ?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 6 May 2002 12:47:01 -0700
Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:53:52PM +0200, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> >On Monday 06 May 2002 04:43, Collins wrote:
> >
> >> I downloaded and installed it, but it appears to be OO or Star redux -
> >> same crappy install process, same overall look, so I trashed it, since
> >> I already have OO.
> >
> >What's so crappy about the SO/OO install process? I did quite a lot of 
> >installs on win resp. linux systems, and I wished all my installation 
> >adventures had been that harmless.
> 
> It should have been ``rpm -U ....''

rpm...

In my opinion, rpm is not very well suited to binary-only installation
from a development system that does not keep the files in the places they
will be installed. It is so obtuse in that way that we decided to do our
own. How does RPM ask where things should be installed?  How would rpm
handle the initial -net versus initial user install of SO? If there are
install options related to what components to install, how does rpm allow
that?

I ask because I did not see any way to do these things with rpm. Maybe
the books and source we checked all left this aspect out.

Still, our front end on our install does manipulate the rpm database so
that dependencies and removal can be manipulated via the 'familiar'
rpm/kpackage interface. We are just now sorting out adding individual
files to the rpm database as part of the install process. That is, files
that are not in an rpm file, but that have been generated for the package at
install time and should be added to the rpm database for a package.

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