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> I also tried playing with setting DESTDIR, but that didn't work very
> well.  After a lot of messing around, I got a useable tar file, but it
> sure wasn't elegant.
> (http://seattlecentral.edu/~dmartin/docs/binpatch.html for my notes on
> that experience).
> 
> My next idea is to try building the patched program, touching some
> file, and then run "find / -newer somefile | xargs tar -xvzf
> woot.tar".
> 
> If there is a better or best way to do this, let me know!

You could NFS export out the build directory from your build server and
mount it on the clients that want to update. Then a 'make build' on them
would grab the newest stuff, and you could be selective about portions of
the tree and so forth.

DS

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