Re: Packaging the compile

["Jason A. Pfeil" <jason jasonpfeil com>]

I actually have my $HOME/garnome symlinked to /usr/local/garnome.  
Whenever I compile a new garnome, I blow everything in /usr/local/garnome 
away first and then rebuild and it all gets put back in 
/usr/local/garnome.  That way, I can just do the symlink again after a 
reinstall and all's well.

In fact, since I like to have /usr/local/ on a separate partition that I 
don't touch during a reinstall (except to tell the system to mount it 
under /usr/local/), I actually don't have to worry about tbz2-ing the 
whole smash.  I just use that method for distributing around my other 
systems that I like to use garnome on.  One compile, one tbz2-ball and 
all's good.  ;-)

--Jason

On 11 Dec 2002, Brian Connelly wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 14:22, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:
> > Since everything gets put in $HOME/garnome by default, I just cd home and 
> > do a tar cjvf garnome.tar.bz2 garnome from $HOME and use that.
> > 
> > I don't know if this is the Right Way To Do It, but it's what I do.
> 
> > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Rick Fleming wrote:
> > 
> > > Just wondering, after I do a build of garnome, is there
> > > an easy way (possibly a command line on make?) 
> > > to package up (either debian or tar zip) the binaries 
> > > so if I were to reformat my machine I could 'reinstall' it 
> > > without recompile?
> > > 
> > > Another way to ask is, should tar & zipping the entire
> > > output garnome folder directly after compile work?
> > > 
> > > The 'reinstall' would be on the same machine with
> > > the same basic installation (debian).
> 
> I've done it like this several times, and it works just fine.  The only
> thing I would add is that if you do it this way, make sure you're
> installing into the same directory, because a lot of the files in etc
> will be looking there.  Of course you could also edit all of these files
> or make a symlink.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 

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