Re: [Gnumed-devel] gnumed / ebuild / install.sh

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:25:52PM -0700, David Grant wrote:

> So, after disapearing for months, I'm finally reappeared, but I've actually 
> done something in my absence (actually just this morning). I created a gentoo 
> ebuild: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37574 It uses the source from 
> here: http://www.gnumed-praxissoftware.de/GNUmed-client.0.1-rc4.tgz
Sounds good.

> Not sure if anyone else uses Gentoo, but I really hate installing things 
> manually, I like having the robust uninstall/upgrade path available to me for 
> any package, even gnumed.
I agree it's useful. Would you want to edit the Wiki
cleaning up the Gentoo references and point them to your
packages ?

> Here's some comments... install.sh is not bad, and neither is the gnumed 
> binary. Installs to /usr/lib/python/site-packages/Gnumed and adds the 
> necessary directories to PYTHONPATH...good stuff. In gentoo my package has to 
> divert to /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Gnumed, but never mind, that's no 
> big deal at this point.
Utilizing a python script should give us the necessary power
of introspection to derive the proper path ...

> Why does install put gnumed.conf 
> into /etc/gnumed/gnumed.conf if it isn't being used? It should be put 
> in /usr/share/gnumed*/examples/gnumed.conf, am I right?
yes, or perhaps .../doc/gnumed/examples/...

Karsten
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