On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:51 AM, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK.. looks like a complete install, track down all the bits and pieces > and hopefully not miss anything. > > Luckily I'm reasonably consistent where I put things, so it's just going > to be a long slow process. > > In a perfect world, apt-get would do everything but in practice it > doesn't :(
So you can try to narrow the gap between "perfect" and "current" by trying to create packages for the software you write. I saw some programs (possibly already packaged for Debian/Ubuntu) which can take any software packge which installs from source (some limited to the usual "./config && make && make test && make install", some more general), track what files were changed and installed by the installation process (using strace, I guess), then make it possible for you to have a list of the files involved and uninstall them cleanly. Same or other programs can keep track of which extra packages were installed outside the debian package management system. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
