On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 07:49:42PM +1000, skaller wrote: > On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 10:13 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > We already moved some this way with ocaml, who installs in > > /usr/lib/ocaml/<version>, but didn't go the full way. > > Ok, can I do this too? I would install in: > > /usr/lib/felix/felix-1.1.2
/usr/lib/felix/1.1.2 should be enough :) > > There are two issues > > remaining : > > > > 1) binaries are not versioned. Upstream support for this is a bit fishy, > > and > > it would have represented lot of work. > > > > 2) we decided to keep only a single ocaml non versioned package, in order > > to > > avoid issues with NEW and lag due to the ftp-masters overload. > > I understand. What happens, if I upgrade my Ocaml? Does the old > directory get deleted due to a conflict removing the old > Ocaml package first? yes. Well, only the part of it which is in the old dir gets removed. > I can cope with that temporarily -- just tell people to > > cp -R /usr/lib/felix/felix-1.1.2 /usr/local/felix/ > > or perhaps copy to ~/felix as they see fit -- if they want to save Bah, just go the full way, and have binaries being version dependent, like gcc does. You can put the manpages in a separate binary package, and have only one installed. > the old version. I won't be installing my own package .. I don't > want any installed version because it will interfere with testing > the development version. Also why I don't install Ocaml via Bah, just install in a separate changeroot. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
