I'm running FC3. I have a couple of programs that are not available as rpms that I had to install from source. I was just wondering if there is a way to register them so that, for example, rpm -q myprogram would give correct results. Does anyone has experience with that?
Depending on what you're looking for, stow might be worth looking at. Stow, available as an rpm in the fedora.us repository. To use stow, you configure with a prefix of /usr/local/stow/yourprog. After installing, you cd to /usr/local/stow and say '% stow yourprog', which builds links in /usr/local to the installed files. '% stow -D yourprog' uninstalls it.
What I like about stow is that the install is completely self- documenting, so I never have to figure out what needs to be removed.
