registering non-rpm programs?
Geoffrey Leach
geoff at direcway.com
Sun Nov 28 18:09:01 UTC 2004
On 27-Nov-04, at 8:41 PM, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>
> I'm running FC3. I have a couple of programs that are not available
> as rpms that I had to install from source. I was just wondering if
> there is a way to register them so that, for example, rpm -q
> myprogram would give correct results. Does anyone has experience
> with that?
Depending on what you're looking for, stow might be worth looking at.
Stow, available as an rpm in the fedora.us repository. To use stow,
you configure with a prefix of /usr/local/stow/yourprog. After
installing, you cd to /usr/local/stow and say '% stow yourprog', which
builds links in /usr/local to the installed files. '% stow -D
yourprog' uninstalls it.
What I like about stow is that the install is completely self-
documenting, so I never have to figure out what needs to be removed.
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