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| ===== Overview ===== | ===== Overview ===== |
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| At present, ''opkg'' and the package-generation system does not provide a formal way to display messages about the package to end users. | At present, ''opkg'' and the package-generation system does not provide a formal way to display //messages// about the package to end users. It does include a package //description//. |
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| Other package-management systems, such as ''dpkg'' on Debian-like systems, and ''pkg'' on FreeBSD-like systems provide a "package message" that can be viewed before installation, as well as displayed on installation. | ''pkg'' on FreeBSD-like systems provide a "package message" that can be viewed before installation, as well as displayed on installation. |
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| | It is not clear that ''dpkg'' or the RPM Package manager provide a similar facility. |
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| This page is a work-in-progress to define the use cases and success criteria for any future development of such a facility. At the time of this writing (March, 2018), there is not a schedule for such development. | This page is a work-in-progress to define the use cases and success criteria for any future development of such a facility. At the time of this writing (March, 2018), there is not a schedule for such development. |
| [[https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#s-maintscriptprompt|Prompting in maintainer scripts]] is also discussed. | [[https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#s-maintscriptprompt|Prompting in maintainer scripts]] is also discussed. |
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| | ==== RedHat/Fedora/CentOS-based Systems ==== |
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| | RedHat, Fedora, and their derivatives use the [[https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/5/html/deployment_guide/ch-rpm|RPM Package Manager]]. The details of the package are generally [[http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-build-creating-spec-file.html|specified in a ''.spec'' file]]. The ''.spec'' file contains a "Description" section in the "human readable" preamble. |
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