[CMake] License agreement in package installation

[jupiter]

Thanks Eric and Andreas.

On 9/18/12, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/9/17 hce <jupiter.hce at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to add an interfactive license agreement to an RPM package when it
>> is
>> installed in Linux terminal (not GUI), it should display the license and
>> asked whether the user agree or not. I noticed from cmake 2.8.8 document
>> there is CPACK_RESOURCE_FILE_LICENSE may produce such process, am I
>> right?
>
> This is the right way to do it but...
>
>> If I am wrong, how can I make it work with cmake / cpack?
>
> This is not supported by CPack RPM, we could include the license text
> file as a %doc file but..
>
> ..it is usually a bad idea to include interactivity (i.e. install time
> question) in an RPM,
> because most of the time no-one will be there to answer it:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2132828/adding-license-agreement-in-rpm-package
>
> (see licensing guidelines of RPM based distros as well:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines
>  http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Licensing)
>
> On Debian dpkg sometimes ask question but there is a mean to avoid
> them of provide default answers in a 'non-interactive' way:
> http://serverfault.com/questions/84521/automate-dpkg-reconfigure-tzdata
>
>
> That said, with CPackRPM
> you may use CPACK_RPM_PRE_INSTALL_SCRIPT_FILE
> see:
> cpack --help-variable CPACK_RPM_PRE_INSTALL_SCRIPT_FILE
>
> in order to launch a pre-install script that may ask a question.
>
> An appropriate alternative would be to pop-up the license agreement at
> some other point:
>   - Before downloading the RPM
>   - On the first run of the installed software
>   - ...
>
> --
> Erk
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