[vtkusers] VTK rpms - new .spec file

Bill Lorensen wlorens1 at nycap.rr.com
Thu Nov 23 14:18:19 EST 2000


David,
Dan Blezek takes care of the rpm's. He'll we out of town til the week after next. I'll remind him to incorporate your updates,

Bill

At 02:11 PM 11/23/00 -0500, David Gobbi wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm not sure who is currently maintaining the VTK rpms, so I'm just
>sending this out to the list.  I've tested the attached .spec file
>thoroughly to ensure that it works (at least with the CVS version of VTK).
>
>I've attached a new .spec file for the VTK RPMS that clears up a
>couple issues with them:
>
>- /sbin/ldconfig is now run after installation of vtk-tcl, vtk-python
>   or vtk-java (previously it was only run after the installation of
>   the main RPM, and the user would have to run it manually after 
>   installing the other components)
>
>- a .pth file is put into /usr/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages so that python
>   can find the vtkpython.so module.
>
>These changes follow the philosophy that everything should 'just work'
>after an RPM is installed, and that the user shouldn't be required to
>run ldconfig, set environment variables, etc.
>
>  - David
>
>--
>   David Gobbi, MSc                    dgobbi at irus.rri.on.ca
>   Advanced Imaging Research Group
>   Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario






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