Karel Kulhavy wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 01:44:16PM +0200, Henrik Karlsson wrote:
Karel Kulhavy skrev:
But what should user do when he has an old version of gEDA and needs
a new one? Erase the disk and reinstall the operating system completely?
How about 'yum update' or 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade'? Or use some
other package mangement system.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ yum update
bash: yum: command not found
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get update
bash: apt-get: command not found
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get upgrade
bash: apt-get: command not found
Friend has Ubuntu and there are no gEDA packages.
These suggestions are irrelevant. The message is: reinstallation
procedure doesn't exist and has to be written. Please understand
the message and fix the problem.
well, just do 'make uninstall' in your source tree. That should be
supported by all software which uses automake.
seriously though, what you're asking for goes way beyond just geda and
it is silly to thing that geda will solve this problem which exists for
essentially all unix software. The right solution will vary drastically
based on the particular environment. Is this a single user, all
software installed locally system, a distributed system where mirroring
of software across a WAN is needed, maybe just a small workgroup that
shares installed software on a LAN. Are you trying to stay within some
particular software packaging and deployment system? Whats your system
policy on paths, does everything use --prefix=/usr/local or do you do
--prefix=/opt/package-version and create a link farm in /opt/bin or
maybe just add directories to your path, do you need to support having
multiple versions installed at the same time? If so, how do you want
users to pick the version? Change of path? Versioned wrapper scripts?
The point is there are many many approaches to this problem, each with
its advantages and disadvantages. No one approach is likely to fit
everyones needs. By using automake and autoconf, geda automatically
provides the sort of functionality though in its build system to help it
integrated into many of these different packaging systems.
Speaking as one who maintains the geda packages for NetBSD's packaging
system and as one who has installed multiple versions outside of a
formal packaging system, its just not that hard _unless_ you make some
bad sysadmin decisions up front.
If you don't want to use a formal packaging system, I suggest you just
use --prefix=/opt/geda-${version} and put everything into its own
directory. Then you can easily have multiple versions and just pick the
right one for your path.
I'll note, that the links download page a) does not have correct install
instructions for many systems (there is no single package system,
ldconfig is not universal, etc) and b) has no indication whatsoever of
how to deinstall or install multiple versions. I'm not trying to pick
on links here, but rather to say that I'm not sure I've seen a program
which comes with the instructions you seem to be asking for.
Or maybe I've missed the point of your question...
-Dan
