Re:Something interesting about Moz on Windows XP
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*Sigh*. I think we're all aware that Mozilla is using XUL and that XUL is an alternative to real native widgets. I also think everybody that read the above comment was knew that by `use' XP vidual styles, I meant `inherit' Windows XP visual styles to the point most users wouldn't notice the difference between XUL and native.
Something interesting about Moz on Windows XP
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It uses native widgets. I.e., unlike a lot of other apps - eg, Microsoft's own Office XP - Mozilla actually uses Windows XP's `styles'. If you get rid of the GreyModern / Netscape 4 themes and replace them with the IE theme, Mozilla actually looks and acts like a rather pleasant and featurefilled native looking web browser for Win32. Without the security holes of IE, plus tabbing, popup control, and lots of other goodies IE doesn't have.
Its nice to see this kind of thing on Slashdot. Now days everybody talks like they've got something to say, but nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish and motherf**kers act like they forgot about Dre...
Because Half Life's plot sounds like Doom 1
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An isolate research facility is experimenting with teleportation qhen things go bad and people start turning into zombies.
This is the same plot the first Doom had. From the DOOM FAQ:
In DOOM, you're a space marine, one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action. Three years ago you assaulted a superior officer for ordering his soldiers to fire upon civilians. He and his body cast were shipped to Pearl Harbor, while you were transferred to Mars, home of the Union Aerospace Corporation.
The UAC is a multi-planetary conglomerate with radioactive waste facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos. With no action for fifty million miles, your day consisted of suckin' dust and watchin' restricted flicks in the rec room.
For the last four years the military, UAC's biggest supplier, has used the remote facilities on Phobos and Deimos to conduct various secret projects, including research on inter-dimensional space travel. So far they have been able to open gateways between Phobos and Deimos, throwing a few gadgets into one and watching them come out the other. Recently however, the gateways have grown dangerously unstable. Military "volunteers" entering them have either disappeared or been stricken with a strange form of insanity--babbling vulgarities, bludgeoning anything that breathes, and finally suffering an untimely death of full-body explosion. Matching heads with torsos to send home to the folks became a full-time job. Latest military reports state that the research is suffering a small setback, but everything is under control.
A few hours ago, Mars received a garbled message from Phobos. "We require immediate military support. Something fraggin' evil is coming out of the gateways! Computer systems have gone berserk!" The rest was incoherent. Soon afterwards, Deimos simply vanished from the sky. Since then, attempts to establish contact with either moon have been unsuccessful.
You and your buddies, the only combat troop for fifty million miles were sent up pronto to Phobos. You were ordered to secure the perimeter of the base while the rest of the team went inside. For several hours, your radio picked up the sounds of combat: guns firing, men yelling orders, screams, bones cracking, then finally silence. Seems your buddies are dead.
Things aren't looking too good. You'll never navigate off the planet on your own. Plus, all the heavy weapons have been taken by the assault team leaving you only with a pistol. If only you could get your hands around a plasma rifle or even a shotgun you could take a few down on your way out. Whatever killed your buddies deserves a couple of pellets in the forehead. Securing your helmet, you exit the landing pod. Hopefully you can find more substantial firepower somewhere within the station. As you walk through the main entrance of the base, you hear animal-like growls echoing throughout the distant corridors. They know you're here. There's no turning back now.
Mozilla is still for the technically advanced (Slashdot?) crowd.
Ask anyone whose been slashdotted what user agent people have set. Yes, a portion of Mozilla / Konq / whatevr users set their user agent to be IE, but I have trouble believing that over 50% of Slashdot readers are doing this.
Don Marti.... the former Editor for ELJ told me that..."If you are doing any embedded development at all, read linux journal and rejoice! as the pain of developing on proprietary embedded OSes has past."
Linux / BSD. These are better choices the days than they were three months ago, because modern Linux NAS devices can handle Active Directory using Samba 3 code. This is a chief concern for a lot of Windows shops. Quantum, who employ Andrew Tridgell, now have a 1.4TB enterprise NAS box based on Samba 3 code, which apparently already stable enough to do this kind of thing. Obviously, SMB, LDAP, NFS (and NIS if you're into that sort of thing) are all possible. There's already existing web based UIs you can modify for your needs.
Your main issue is that the permission system used on most Linux distributions is pathetically non granular and can prove annoying in even the most basic of office situations. Real OSs use ACLs, and no other distro than Mandrake supports these by default (and Mandrake, IMHO, in a not a choice for embedded Linux). With XFS, Samba 2.2 or greater, Linux can have ACL support, and Windows users can modify these ACLs from their client machines.
Windows 2000 SAK. Microsoft's solution for the NAS market is not an embedded OS but rather a 2GB default install of Windows 2000 with Services for Unix, and Mac / Netware interoperabiltiy installed by default. You can do most things though the web based GUI but you require a direct login to the device to perform certain tasks on many devices that used this (more a fault of the manufacturers tho - MS does provide them with the ability to add to the web based GUI). 2GB of software to run means 2GB of software to potentially go wrong, and 2GB to update. People will tell you `look it does Active Directory!'. You in turn can tell them `yes, so does my Linux box'. OTOH, Win2000 SAK has to compete with Linux and BSD devices, so there's no per client access licenses.
MS uses certificates to verify that the patches are in fact from them. I'm not sure if there is any mechanism in place for linux kernel updates. You just gotta trust that kernel.org and the mirrors point to where they should be.
RPM does the same. People who know what they are doing use vendor provided kernels if they can't, or download vendor kernel source otherwise and run `make munoconfig, make rpm'.
upgrading with apt is easy, and not much work. Apt-get works fien on Red Hat and has for a very long time. Check out www.freshrpms.net and its various mirrors.
Codeweavers Crossover isn't Open Soruce either.
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Codeweavers (with *tada* Wine) does it
Cool. Where can I download the source to the Wine / Netscape Plugin API link? Oh wait, I can't. Codeweavers make great products, fund Open Source, and give much of their work back to Wine. But not all of it, and they certainly don't do it from selling Open Source software. Ximian, I doubt, is even profitable.
Re:You cannot deny GCC is the heart of free softwa
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Does Torvalds recognize that quality Free Software would not exist if everyone thought like that?
You're begging the question. Of course he doesn't recognize that, because it may not be reality. Linus uses Linux because its useful. There's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't mean less Open Source / Free Software would exist - likely more, because people would realize others are using Linux because of the superior end products that result from an Open Source development model, rather than a sense of ethics that very few others share.
Of course Torvalds has a right to his own opinions, but I wish he'd keep his mouth shut instead of revealing how shallow he is.
Of course you have the right to post, but I wish you too would shut up instead of revealign what an annoying illogical little bitch you are. Rude isn't it?
Simply because the overhwleming majority of its users call it thus. In the future `Linux' will have a more stricter definition: it will be an Operating System that conforms to the Linux Standards base.
You mean non-free, or proprietary. Why is it that so many people who seemingly care about these issues have neither used their own sense of logic to work this out already, or read what the FSF has to say about the common misuse of this term.
The current KDE3 RPMs for RH 7.2 from Red Hat have their own glitches: ksplash goes kblooie at startup, and konqueror seems to have this big memory leak that bloats its footprint over time.
I've installed them on six different red Hat 7.2 machines and not encountered this, and so have most Red Hat users I've spoke to who installed KDE on Red Hat 7.2. Personally, I just duped Red Hat's packages in a local apt repository and then apt-get installed kdebase. I had to uninstall some minor stuff (like switchdesk-kde) that wasn't yet ported to KDE 3, but other than that, everything went AOK. There appears to be something amiss with your system - try visiting irc.openprojects.net #redhat for a hand.
Be aware that Linux isn't the only non-commercial UNIX OS in the world
Who said Linux was non commercial? Most of the more popular Linux distribution are produced for commercial reasons. I think the word you are looking for is Open Source or Free.
I have written instructions on setting up Postfix to work with Sophos Mailmonitor. I like this solution because the API between MailMonitor and Postfix is pure, regular SMTP, not some vendor unsupported addon. I can telnet to the port the Mailmonitor SMTP server runs on and troubleshoot, knowing that any errors in this part of the operation are the responsibility of Sophos, or alternatively that if the SMTP server on this port is fine, my postfix config is at fault.
It's not Ipen Source that's the threat, it's Free Software. FreeBSD is open source, but you can turn around, take that code and put it in a closed commericial product, and sell it without ever releasing your source.
The BSD license is a Free Software license as it conforms to the Free Software Definition it's also Open Source as it conforms to the Open Source Definition . Why do so many people who talk about licensing as being important seems to never have read any of these documents? Half of Slashdot uses `commercial' as a way of saying `non-free' or `closed' or `proprietary'. News Flash: Red Hat, like all businesses, are aiming for money (and getting it). Commercial apps are very often both Open Source and Free Software.
I'm blacking out again now, as I've been banned from moderation because I disagreed with a Slashdot editor.
Re:Transgaming deserves your money...
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All of this is fine, but doesn't square with your previous comment at all:
How do.debs "leave crap all over your system", "make it a nigthmare to build applications upon" and "generally suck"?
It squares fine with my previous comment - which never mentioned Debs, but were rather about installing any piece of software with using a packaging system. Deb's wouldn't be to bad, they're just not the current standard and (unlike RPM 4) aren't likely to be in the future.
Re:Transgaming deserves your money...
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There are things that either RPM or Debs have over the other. RPM has better package verification tools than Debian,. and can often be used a s a kind of poor mans tripwire. I userstand the GPG stuff is a lot better in RPM packages than Debian packages too. Debian has suggested / recommended / required dependencies (and excellent and useful feature) and some nice nice policy (tho similar stuff exists for many RPM based distros). Most people don't realize that both have apt-get support. RPM 3 is the current Linux standard for packaging and this will be changed to RPM 4 once Maximum RPM is updated for the new version.
Further instructions for packaging newbies
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Remember, keep the resulting files for your own use. Redistributing binaries of Winex breaks the license and means you're freeloading off a company that gives you a whole lot for free anyway and doesn't charge much for a subscription, and that because of this, you suck.
cd/var/tmp
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cv sroot/winex login
Hit Enter when prompted for a password
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cv sroot/winex co wine
mv wine winex-(today's date if ISO format, eg 20020418)
Download the spec above and save it into a file called/usr/src/(distribution)/SPECS
Edit that file. Change Version to today's date, in the same format you did earlier. Change release to, say 2davesmith (because you made the package, not `mm' - i.e. Mike MacCana / Nailer.
rpm -ba/usr/src/(distribution)/SPECS/winex.spec
When the compile is over, you'll have a source package and a bianry package in/usr/src/(distribution)/SRPMS and/usr/src/(distribution)/RPMS.
Install the RPM.
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PS - I've had a long day. Excuse the obvious typos.
Transgaming deserves your money...
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They provide a truly useful service for Linux gamers at a very reasonable price (far cheaper than most games) where purchasers actually get control over the direction of the project with their subscriptions. They also make their source code avaliable to anyone, sans the copy protection needed to play a lot of protected games. Install WineX from their source, test the non-copy protected demo version of your game, and if it works, buy WineX.
That said, they're two ways to install software on Linux. One is RPM, the other has non standard install, uninstall, auditing and verification, leaves crap all over your system, makes it a nigthmare to build applications upon, and generally sucks. Here's a spec file you can use to create source and binary packages of Winex.
Summary: Runs Windows programs (especially multimedia ones) under Linux Name: winex Version: 20020407 Release: 1mm Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2 License: APSL Group: Applications/Emulators BuildRoot: %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version} Requires: kernel >= 2.4, XFree86-devel, gcc >= 2.7.2, flex >= 2.5 Requires: bison, glibc >= 2 %description TransGaming WineX is a derivative of the Wine project. Wine is an implementation of the Microsoft® Win32® APIs on top of UNIX and X-Windows - in essence, it is a Window s® compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows to be installed, as it provides an alternative implementation of Windows written from scratch with no Mi crosoft code whatever. TransGaming WineX includes a new implementation of the Microsoft DirectX multimedia APIs, including Direct3D - the core graphics system most Windows games use for hardw are accelerated 3D.
Show them how to do it properly - using their package manager. Not only will this allow the software to be installed, uninstalled queried by other apps, and otherwise interacted with in a standard fashion. You'll also be able to easily repeat installs between systems, allow users to easily recompile from source (RPM, the standard packaging system on Linux, is based around source packages which can be easily recompiled with whatever extra configure flags you want). When someone else inherits a machine you administer, you won't give them a headache as your installs have been largely self documenting.
Here's a sample.SPEC file which should be useable with just about any standard tarball / GNU autoconf app:
Summary: An addictive and frantically paced puzzle game with cute 3D graphics Name: crack-attack Version: 1.1.7 Release: 1mm Source0: http://aluminumangel.org/cgi-bin/download_counter. cgi?attack_linux+attack/%{n ame}-%{version}.tar.g z License: GPL Group: Amusements/Games BuildRoot: %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version} BuildRequires: glut-devel Requires: glut %description Crack-attack is addictive and frantically paced puzzle game with cute 3D graphics, pla yable either against the computer in single player or across a network multiplayer, w here one players success clearing blocks dumps large immuntable tiles upon the others block pit. Muahahahaha! %prep %setup -q
Slashdot Mirror
*Sigh*. I think we're all aware that Mozilla is using XUL and that XUL is an alternative to real native widgets. I also think everybody that read the above comment was knew that by `use' XP vidual styles, I meant `inherit' Windows XP visual styles to the point most users wouldn't notice the difference between XUL and native.
It uses native widgets. I.e., unlike a lot of other apps - eg, Microsoft's own Office XP - Mozilla actually uses Windows XP's `styles'. If you get rid of the GreyModern / Netscape 4 themes and replace them with the IE theme, Mozilla actually looks and acts like a rather pleasant and featurefilled native looking web browser for Win32. Without the security holes of IE, plus tabbing, popup control, and lots of other goodies IE doesn't have.
Andreas "Dre" Pour writes ...
Its nice to see this kind of thing on Slashdot. Now days everybody talks like they've got something to say, but nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish and motherf**kers act like they forgot about Dre...
An isolate research facility is experimenting with teleportation qhen things go bad and people start turning into zombies.
This is the same plot the first Doom had. From the DOOM FAQ:
In DOOM, you're a space marine, one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action. Three years ago you assaulted a superior officer for ordering his soldiers to fire upon civilians. He and his body cast were shipped to Pearl Harbor, while you were transferred to Mars, home of the Union Aerospace Corporation.
The UAC is a multi-planetary conglomerate with radioactive waste facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos. With no action for fifty million miles, your day consisted of suckin' dust and watchin' restricted flicks in the rec room.
For the last four years the military, UAC's biggest supplier, has used the remote facilities on Phobos and Deimos to conduct various secret projects, including research on inter-dimensional space travel. So far they have been able to open gateways between Phobos and Deimos, throwing a few gadgets into one and watching them come out the other. Recently however, the gateways have grown dangerously unstable. Military "volunteers" entering them have either disappeared or been stricken with a strange form of insanity--babbling vulgarities, bludgeoning anything that breathes, and finally suffering an untimely death of full-body explosion. Matching heads with torsos to send home to the folks became a full-time job. Latest military reports state that the research is suffering a small setback, but everything is under control.
A few hours ago, Mars received a garbled message from Phobos. "We require immediate military support. Something fraggin' evil is coming out of the gateways! Computer systems have gone berserk!" The rest was incoherent. Soon afterwards, Deimos simply vanished from the sky. Since then, attempts to establish contact with either moon have been unsuccessful.
You and your buddies, the only combat troop for fifty million miles were sent up pronto to Phobos. You were ordered to secure the perimeter of the base while the rest of the team went inside. For several hours, your radio picked up the sounds of combat: guns firing, men yelling orders, screams, bones cracking, then finally silence. Seems your buddies are dead.
Things aren't looking too good. You'll never navigate off the planet on your own. Plus, all the heavy weapons have been taken by the assault team leaving you only with a pistol. If only you could get your hands around a plasma rifle or even a shotgun you could take a few down on your way out. Whatever killed your buddies deserves a couple of pellets in the forehead. Securing your helmet, you exit the landing pod. Hopefully you can find more substantial firepower somewhere within the station. As you walk through the main entrance of the base, you hear animal-like growls echoing throughout the distant corridors. They know you're here. There's no turning back now.
Fetch the screenshots then view them when you're done...
for i in $(seq 1 20); do wget http://www.gamespy.com/e32002/pc/doom3b/"$i".jpg; done
None of those GNU clones would exist without someone to author and design the originals...
Mozilla is still for the technically advanced (Slashdot?) crowd.
Ask anyone whose been slashdotted what user agent people have set. Yes, a portion of Mozilla / Konq / whatevr users set their user agent to be IE, but I have trouble believing that over 50% of Slashdot readers are doing this.
Don Marti .... the former Editor for ELJ told me that..."If you are doing any embedded development at all, read linux journal and rejoice! as the pain of developing on proprietary embedded OSes has past."
passed. No wonder he's the former editor...
Your main issue is that the permission system used on most Linux distributions is pathetically non granular and can prove annoying in even the most basic of office situations. Real OSs use ACLs, and no other distro than Mandrake supports these by default (and Mandrake, IMHO, in a not a choice for embedded Linux). With XFS, Samba 2.2 or greater, Linux can have ACL support, and Windows users can modify these ACLs from their client machines.
MS uses certificates to verify that the patches are in fact from them. I'm not sure if there is any mechanism in place for linux kernel updates. You just gotta trust that kernel.org and the mirrors point to where they should be.
RPM does the same. People who know what they are doing use vendor provided kernels if they can't, or download vendor kernel source otherwise and run `make munoconfig, make rpm'.
upgrading with apt is easy, and not much work.
Apt-get works fien on Red Hat and has for a very long time. Check out www.freshrpms.net and its various mirrors.
Codeweavers (with *tada* Wine) does it
Cool. Where can I download the source to the Wine / Netscape Plugin API link? Oh wait, I can't. Codeweavers make great products, fund Open Source, and give much of their work back to Wine. But not all of it, and they certainly don't do it from selling Open Source software. Ximian, I doubt, is even profitable.
Does Torvalds recognize that quality Free Software would not exist if everyone thought like that?
You're begging the question. Of course he doesn't recognize that, because it may not be reality. Linus uses Linux because its useful. There's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't mean less Open Source / Free Software would exist - likely more, because people would realize others are using Linux because of the superior end products that result from an Open Source development model, rather than a sense of ethics that very few others share.
Of course Torvalds has a right to his own opinions, but I wish he'd keep his mouth shut instead of revealing how shallow he is.
Of course you have the right to post, but I wish you too would shut up instead of revealign what an annoying illogical little bitch you are. Rude isn't it?
Simply because the overhwleming majority of its users call it thus. In the future `Linux' will have a more stricter definition: it will be an Operating System that conforms to the Linux Standards base.
You mean non-free, or proprietary. Why is it that so many people who seemingly care about these issues have neither used their own sense of logic to work this out already, or read what the FSF has to say about the common misuse of this term.
The current KDE3 RPMs for RH 7.2 from Red Hat have their own glitches: ksplash goes kblooie at startup, and konqueror seems to have this big memory leak that bloats its footprint over time.
I've installed them on six different red Hat 7.2 machines and not encountered this, and so have most Red Hat users I've spoke to who installed KDE on Red Hat 7.2. Personally, I just duped Red Hat's packages in a local apt repository and then apt-get installed kdebase. I had to uninstall some minor stuff (like switchdesk-kde) that wasn't yet ported to KDE 3, but other than that, everything went AOK. There appears to be something amiss with your system - try visiting irc.openprojects.net #redhat for a hand.
Be aware that Linux isn't the only non-commercial UNIX OS in the world
Who said Linux was non commercial? Most of the more popular Linux distribution are produced for commercial reasons. I think the word you are looking for is Open Source or Free.
I have written instructions on setting up Postfix to work with Sophos Mailmonitor. I like this solution because the API between MailMonitor and Postfix is pure, regular SMTP, not some vendor unsupported addon. I can telnet to the port the Mailmonitor SMTP server runs on and troubleshoot, knowing that any errors in this part of the operation are the responsibility of Sophos, or alternatively that if the SMTP server on this port is fine, my postfix config is at fault.
It's not Ipen Source that's the threat, it's Free Software. FreeBSD is open source, but you can turn around, take that code and put it in a closed commericial product, and sell it without ever releasing your source.
The BSD license is a Free Software license as it conforms to the Free Software Definition it's also Open Source as it conforms to the Open Source Definition . Why do so many people who talk about licensing as being important seems to never have read any of these documents? Half of Slashdot uses `commercial' as a way of saying `non-free' or `closed' or `proprietary'. News Flash: Red Hat, like all businesses, are aiming for money (and getting it). Commercial apps are very often both Open Source and Free Software.
I'm blacking out again now, as I've been banned from moderation because I disagreed with a Slashdot editor.
All of this is fine, but doesn't square with your previous comment at all:
.debs "leave crap all over your system", "make it a nigthmare to build applications upon" and "generally suck"?
How do
It squares fine with my previous comment - which never mentioned Debs, but were rather about installing any piece of software with using a packaging system. Deb's wouldn't be to bad, they're just not the current standard and (unlike RPM 4) aren't likely to be in the future.
There are things that either RPM or Debs have over the other. RPM has better package verification tools than Debian,. and can often be used a s a kind of poor mans tripwire. I userstand the GPG stuff is a lot better in RPM packages than Debian packages too. Debian has suggested / recommended / required dependencies (and excellent and useful feature) and some nice nice policy (tho similar stuff exists for many RPM based distros). Most people don't realize that both have apt-get support. RPM 3 is the current Linux standard for packaging and this will be changed to RPM 4 once Maximum RPM is updated for the new version.
Hit Enter when prompted for a password
PS - I've had a long day. Excuse the obvious typos.
They provide a truly useful service for Linux gamers at a very reasonable price (far cheaper than most games) where purchasers actually get control over the direction of the project with their subscriptions. They also make their source code avaliable to anyone, sans the copy protection needed to play a lot of protected games. Install WineX from their source, test the non-copy protected demo version of your game, and if it works, buy WineX.
/sbin/ldconfig
/sbin/ldconfig
_ libdir}/*
That said, they're two ways to install software on Linux. One is RPM, the other has non standard install, uninstall, auditing and verification, leaves crap all over your system, makes it a nigthmare to build applications upon, and generally sucks. Here's a spec file you can use to create source and binary packages of Winex.
Summary: Runs Windows programs (especially multimedia ones) under Linux
Name: winex
Version: 20020407
Release: 1mm
Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
License: APSL
Group: Applications/Emulators
BuildRoot: %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}
Requires: kernel >= 2.4, XFree86-devel, gcc >= 2.7.2, flex >= 2.5
Requires: bison, glibc >= 2
%description
TransGaming WineX is a derivative of the Wine project. Wine is an implementation of
the Microsoft® Win32® APIs on top of UNIX and X-Windows - in essence, it is a Window
s® compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows to be installed, as
it provides an alternative implementation of Windows written from scratch with no Mi
crosoft code whatever.
TransGaming WineX includes a new implementation of the Microsoft DirectX multimedia
APIs, including Direct3D - the core graphics system most Windows games use for hardw
are accelerated 3D.
%prep
%setup -q
%build
%configure
make depend
make
%install
%makeinstall
%post -p
%postun -p
%clean
rm -rf %{buildroot}
%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
%{_bindir}/*
%{
%doc README ANNOUNCE BUGS DEVELOPERS-HINTS LICENSE LICENSE.winehq
%changelog
* Sun Apr 7 2002 Mike MacCana 1mm
- Created packages
Show them how to do it properly - using their package manager. Not only will this allow the software to be installed, uninstalled queried by other apps, and otherwise interacted with in a standard fashion. You'll also be able to easily repeat installs between systems, allow users to easily recompile from source (RPM, the standard packaging system on Linux, is based around source packages which can be easily recompiled with whatever extra configure flags you want). When someone else inherits a machine you administer, you won't give them a headache as your installs have been largely self documenting.
.SPEC file which should be useable with just about any standard tarball / GNU autoconf app:
. cgi?attack_linux+attack/%{ng z
/sbin/ldconfig
/sbin/ldconfig
Here's a sample
Summary: An addictive and frantically paced puzzle game with cute 3D graphics
Name: crack-attack
Version: 1.1.7
Release: 1mm
Source0: http://aluminumangel.org/cgi-bin/download_counter
ame}-%{version}.tar.
License: GPL
Group: Amusements/Games
BuildRoot: %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}
BuildRequires: glut-devel
Requires: glut
%description
Crack-attack is addictive and frantically paced puzzle game with cute 3D graphics, pla
yable either against the computer in single player or across a network multiplayer, w
here one players success clearing blocks dumps large immuntable tiles upon the others
block pit. Muahahahaha!
%prep
%setup -q
%build
%configure
make
%install
%makeinstall
%post -p
%postun -p
%clean
rm -rf %{buildroot}
%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
/usr
%doc AUTHORS COPYING INSTALL NEWS README
%changelog
* Thu Apr 11 2002 Mike MacCana 1mm
- Created packages