On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Raymond A. Wiker wrote:

> Hubert Feyrer writes:
>  > > 	Suggestion: Since a lot (heh...) of software uses "install" to
>  > > create directories and install files, it might be viable to extend the
>  > > functionality of "install"... At a minimum, it should be trivial to
>  > > make "install" create a list of what it does; this could then be
>  > > processed to give packing lists and scripts for creating a package and
>  > > uninstalling it.
>  > 
>  > To be sure to catch everythink you'd also have to patch ln, cp and maybe mv...
>  > sounds like a quite gross hack to me. :(
[...]
> 	Seriously, my post was about extending install to assist in
> generating packages - it's obvious that it is not possible to devise a
> complete, automatic solution.

make -n install | {awk,sed,perl} some_funy_script_that_generates_a_package

8^)

Eduardo