Hmm, okay - this is vaguely interesting! In order to copy this to a DVD I seem to need to copy the entire tree to a temporary directory in my home folder and "chown -R mart:users *" the whole lot otherwise both Toast and Dragon Burn both produce coasters (nice of them to check to see if they have read permissions before starting!).
So, when they're copied back on the target machine I'm guessing it'll be okay to just do the opposite and "sudo chown -R root:admin /sw/*"? I've not really got any way to double check that EVERY file within the sw tree has these ownership details to start off with!. Which brings me to permissions. If I copy these all to DVD and then back on to another machine, will they all be read only, or will the permissions survive intact? Perhaps more to this than I first considered. Incidentally, if this is documented somewhere then feel free to point me to it :) Thanks, Martin. On 17/1/06 14:56, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/17/06, Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just thinking aloud really! >> >> Is it possible to burn my entire /sw directory tree to a DVD, send it to a >> friend and have him use that as a start point rather than going through >> the whole 1.8GB of download, compile, install etc.? >> > > That should work reasonably well. > >> I seem to remember there being a part of the install that regenerates any >> missing scripts and environment setup? > > Yes: /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh will initialize the Fink environment on the > new machine. > Your friend would also need to run "fink reinstall daemonic passwd" if > those two packages are part of your installation, because they do > things outside of the fink tree. > >> >> I ask because i only really use fink for Quanta+ (now KWebDev) and i know >> said friend would probably like to do the same, but i wouldn't wish all >> the work on him if there was another way! >> >> I realise he'll have to install X11, but primarily being a linux user (as >> i was) that won't be a problem. >> >> Ta, >> Martin. > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Fink Documenter > [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment > http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
