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 Installing tarballs...suggestions. I don't normally have any problem installing tarballs; but, I am being cautious about doing it in Gentoo. I assume that it will install fine, but I don't want to end up installing things without a good method of file tracking, so I can remove it cleanly if/when the time comes. How do the experienced people here go about installing/tracking their tarball installs? TIA... -- -Joseph-      |
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02-21-2008, 06:37 AM
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| Re: Installing tarballs...suggestions. Joseph wrote: > I don't normally have any problem installing tarballs; but, I am being > cautious about doing it in Gentoo. > > I assume that it will install fine, but I don't want to end up installing > things without a good method of file tracking, so I can remove it cleanly > if/when the time comes. > > How do the experienced people here go about installing/tracking their > tarball installs? Almost anything is available as an ebuild... Are there really that many things that you need to install as a tarball that you can't keep track of? -WD |
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| Re: Installing tarballs...suggestions. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In news  an.2004.02.14.02.17.37.694458@email.com,Joseph <1on1(remove)@email.com> rambled: > I don't normally have any problem installing tarballs; but, I am being > cautious about doing it in Gentoo. > > I assume that it will install fine, but I don't want to end up > installing things without a good method of file tracking, so I can > remove it cleanly if/when the time comes. > > How do the experienced people here go about installing/tracking their > tarball installs? > > TIA... Check out the portage documentation, especially the i option. Billy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) - WinPT 0.7.96rc1 iQD1AwUBQC2GsW2aRmqinBtGAQLc8Qb/bs9MTAuHjlbEk5vKg+BRjAe+rhUVqCqk 74EoYom0IqUJ0SHQaieFz2aPNufqImfjuO5vXWYKnBHZa8TIbf C0MHgpqIlZJoDb fv/L8cYPK0UqP48bv9/LdYIUF8O/Q0xe6rhcZuXW8uQgNbgp+xI47Rr/uCltFFX9 JWyTEWT0BbqGLAYoFi8hfX2SIakzscsu4Tl4qb50xReG3luR/4yaixLI+tu/tJwa nr8RetZm8r/ER24RxYXBEUMzXVAOz9P8btXzJQpVArQXC2b8w38+1gX8DrrFO 9bS +v8EW1mPnk0= =7JSd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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| Re: Installing tarballs...suggestions. 1on1(remove)@email.com (Joseph) wrote: > I don't normally have any problem installing tarballs; but, I am being > cautious about doing it in Gentoo. Write an ebuild for it  It's not that complicated. And if you thinkothers might also want to have this software, too, you can submit it, and it will be in portage soon. > I assume that it will install fine, but I don't want to end up installing > things without a good method of file tracking, so I can remove it cleanly > if/when the time comes. > How do the experienced people here go about installing/tracking their > tarball installs? I use stow. I configure a tarballs named foo with --prefix=/usr/local/ stow/foo, compile and install there, and from /usr/local/stow I call "stow foo". This creates symlinks too all files in /usr/local/stow/ foo/bin in the /usr/local/bin directory, and so on, so it appears to be installed directly in /usr/local. When I want to removete package, I remove the links with "stow -- delete foo", and remove the foo directory. Alex -- Alex Schuster Wonko@wonkology.org PGP Key available alex@pet.mpin-koeln.mpg.de |
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