On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:13:24 -0600 (CST) Jim Haynes <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the past I would install the public release of fldigi > as /usr/local/bin/fldigi and the latest alpha release as > /usr/local/bin/fldigi.test > > Now that the installation procedure has changed to go into > /usr/local/ and extracting from the tarball, I'm not sure how to > manage the public and test versions. I could make a /usr/alpha > or /usr/test and unpack the tarball in there. Or I could unpack > the tarball in some temporary directory and move fldigi to > /usr/local/bin/fldigi.test and compare the rest of the directory > contents with /usr/local/ to see if they are the same. > > How are other people handling this, to be able to keep both > production and test versions at the same time? > > Jim W6JVE I no longer keep a released version, considering that the latest alpha is the same. I build from source and the first few times I start with the --config-dir /test. If I see no problems I just use it as a normal install. I do a daily backup of my system, so I know that I will not lose anything. Also think about how long it has been since an alpha had any real problems. Ed W3NR _______________________________________________ fldigi-alpha mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fldigi-alpha
