Didier Casse wrote:
What I do when I'm trying to figure out what files a package puts where is use tripwire. I take a tripwire snapshot, then install everything, and then do another tripwire snapshot. It will show you every single file that the installer put down.Here's an example of my spec attached. But the last part was guessed by observing the "make install" process. What if I do not want to observe it? Is there an automated way of knowing which directories it's going to be installed and what files would be present.
Is there some ready-made perl scripts that can grab such informartion and modify my spec files?
Normally I don't have to resort to that -- most of the time, I can inspect the makefile and the buildroot, etc, but once in a while it's necessary. It's also a great trick for dealing with "binary only" installers for repacking commercial software.
HTH
-- Aaron Bennett UNIX Administrator Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
