* Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. Remove all traces of yast and it's bastard brethren from the SuSE box. > 2. Have three qualified sysadmins double check that you have indeed removed > every last trace of it. > 3. PREFIX=/some/stage/dir/ > 4. ./configure && make && make install
No, configure with normal FHS prefixes (eg. --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var ...) and pass the DESTDIR variable on 'make install'. Ah, BTW: first you'll should install a recent and clean toolchain completely. SuSE's toolchain packages are known to be broken. > Why remove yast? > Because it's a sneaky P.O.S. and goes to extraordinary lengths to nuke all > your hard work done without it. ACK. That's the first thing I do when some customer comes around with some SuSE box (especially those strange masshoster installations). SuSE is meant for people who wear suits and ties even when going to bed. It's probably nice for migrating Windoze people into the *nix world, but not for enterprise production systems ;-o The funny thing is, back in the 90's it had been a really good distro, back when people like Werner Fink and Boris Nalbach were in charge of the technical designs. That's long gone - 6.x already showed big signs of degregation, 7.x was ugly, beginning with 8.x totally unusable ;-p Take my advise: migrate to another distro. cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
