mjttls.msk.ru (Michael Tokarev) writes:

> > Working on the upgrade of my rpm package for -pl02 I notice that the
> > changes that you made break the package build.
> >
> []
> > How would you suggest I change the behaviour of my install script,
> > without doing an ugly hack?
>
> Simon, one little question: what you mean here about "ugly hack"?
> New postfix install (you'll have fresh %{tmpdir}/postfix-root is
> empty) is easily enouth to do it from .spec file, bypassing
> usual INSTALL.sh procedure -- just copy files to proper places
> (them are already grouped by directory) and made all needed
> dirs. Is this a hack? (just to be shure that i got this right).

Hi Michael.

Yes I have seen that some people do this. I think the freebsd
packagers do the same. However I am not convinced that if Wietse
provides a program install procedure that it should not be used.

IMHO it is better to use the provided tools if they are available and
Wietse did include a install_root variable precisely for this usage.
(It was at my asking though).

I know that the package install can be done without INSTALL.sh but I
think it is better to use it, precisely as INSTALL.sh makes sure that
file and directory permissions are set appropriately.

Perhaps I'm wrong here?

Regards,

Simon

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