On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:42, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings everybody;
>
> I just found a bit of a space waster in the way amanda installs its
> libraries...I had a set of identical
> libraries in /usr/local/lib that amounted to around 50 megabytes
> worth.
Well, I have two ways around such:
1. When I build amanda, since no one else needs her libraries, I use
configure with --prefix=/opt/amanda-${version} so that they all go into
/opt. Then I update a symlink /opt/amanda -> /opt/amanda-${version} and
test. Only when I'm happy do I 'rm -rf' the previous version.
2. For other software I use checkinstall to build an RPM on the fly,
which I can then easily erase/update. Search at Google for
"checkinstall home page".
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Stephen Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, CSU Northridge
