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










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