On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:14:16 +1100, Geoff Reidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:03:21 +1100, > > Geoff Reidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>If you've got plib, SimGear, FlightGear, and fgfsbase installed from > >>cvs you can use this script to keep it up to date: > >>http://home.pacific.net.au/~greendog/flightgear/fgupdate > > > > ..yeeha! I was going to write something like this, thanks! > > Neat job! :-) > > > > Glad you like it :) > > > ..a wee policy nit: This _is_ where we (FG) wanna drop in the > > FG family cvs trees? : "PLIB_DIR=~/games/flightgear/plib > > SIMGEAR_DIR=~/games/flightgear/SimGear > > FLIGHTGEAR_DIR=~/games/flightgear/FlightGear > > FGFSBASE_DIR=~/games/flightgear/fgfsbase" > > > > ..most FG newcomers on thin metered wires will likely first try > > a tarball or a binary, when we tell'em "try cvs", we should also > > help'em minimize the DL by dropping the cvs in somewhere convenient, > > so their old working binaries are left working while their old > > source trees are reused when possible. > > > > Not quite sure what you mean. This script is only useful once you've > already checked out all the sources from cvs. Just removes the routine > from keeping them up to date. ..most people will the source tarballs goes into the /usr/local/ tree as told by the docs. When co'ing from cvs, they haul in _everything_ _again_, instead of just update what's new in cvs since the tarball release. > Decisions of where to drop the cvs sources has to be made at check out ..yep, but we should advice on the ideal cvs for FG. > time and I'm not too sure how to take the pain out of that operation. ..you hardcoded '~/games/' painlessly ;-), it should be $FG-CVS-ROOT or some such, and just where do we put FG-CVS-ROOT? '/usr/local/'? > Can you run cvs co or update over the source from a tarball? I seem to > remember having trouble doing that, though it was ages ago. ..it should be like updating the cvs tree. > Hope noones offended by me having flightgear under games :) ..<hiring expensive hitman/> ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
