"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
>
> [ On Wednesday, February 16, 2000 at 20:34:21 (-0800), Richard Goh Muk Ling wrote: ]
> > Subject: Files Created After Installation
> >
> > directory), so I was wondering after the installation do I need to
> > remove that directory.
>
> Yes, you may remove the "source" directory -- i.e. the place where you
>
> However you might want to keep it around anyway in case you need to
> apply any patches. If you're low on available disk space in that
> partition you can either move it to some other location and/or run "make
> clean" to remove all the files that can be regenerated by "make".
>
If you're going to keep it around, and possibly make patches, I'd
strongly suggest putting the CVS source into your repository with
"cvs import". That way, it'll be far easier to keep patches you
make. After that, you really don't need to keep a separate
source code directory (assuming, of course, that you back up
your repository properly).
If you're not going to make changes yourself, then you don't need
to keep it. You can always get a copy of the latest CVS somewhere.
I'd keep a gzipped tarball somewhere, myself, though.
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