[H-GEN] What have I installed?

[Robert Kearey]

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Ewan Edwards wrote:

> Yesterday, I downloaded the tarball for a recent version of a fairly commonly 
> used piece of software (dhcp-3.0.1rc11.tar.gz) to a RH7.3 box.  After having 
> a look at the README file and running the obligatory "./configure", "make", 
> and "make install" commands (without error I might add), I now want to know 
> what files I have actually 'installed' on this box.  Can someone please tell 
> me where I should look for some kind of list of what files (including man 
> pages) have been generated and installed?

Congratulations, you've discovered why Red Hat, Debian, and others have 
spent a lot of time and effort developer application package management 
software :)

I'd suggest grabbing a dhcp-3 src.rpm from 8.0, and rpm --rebuild-ing that.

> Ewan

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