In looking a the code, if config-path is specified then any current config
file is ignored.
If you specify dest-dir then all of the output files are put below there.
So if you specify both --config-path '' and --dest-dir, I believe any
existing install should be ignored.
Craig
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Kenneth Porter <sh...@sewingwitch.com>
wrote:
> --On Saturday, March 25, 2017 9:58 PM -0700 Craig Barratt
> <cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure how you are using configure.pl to build a package.
> >
> > In any case, what I meant was you should try adding --config-path '' to
> > the existing configure.pl arguments. Is that enough to have it ignore
> any
> > existing installation?
>
> Presumably the package should be built with its final config path,
> /etc/BackupPC. But building the package might be done on a machine with a
> working BackupPC, where the existing configuration should be ignored and
> the package treated as a virgin installation. So it's necessary to tell the
> build system the correct path but to ignore anything currently present at
> that path.
>
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