Re: Deleting uncompressed Info/Doc files at upgrades
Hi,
>>"Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> writes:
Stephane> On Saturday 17 October 1998, at 21 h 56, the keyboard of Rob Browning
>> rlb@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
>> Unless you're logged in as root, you're not going to be able to build
>> these example files inside /usr/doc (nor should you) anyway, so you'll
>> have to copy them somewhere else. You can run gunzip on them then and
>> there's no problem.
Stephane> It means that the sysadmin has to create /usr/local/doc,
Stephane> and, foreach package, create a subdirectory in it and
Stephane> uncompress the files in that subdirectory? Then, after
Stephane> each upgrade he has to do the same? After each removal, she
Stephane> has to remember to delete the subdirectory?
Staw man. You mean you really build all the examples in all
packages? really? Set up a cron job to clean all /usr/local dirs
after no mods in a month., Set up a cron job to cp -a dirs after
changes in /usr/doc.
In reality, one really only compiles examples in a handful of
packages, and one can do that anywhere.
Stephane> To me, this completely defeats the purpose of having
Stephane> packages. I believe I'm reading the messages of Slackware
Stephane> fans explaining that building/installing everything by hand
Stephane> is not a such fuss.
You are entitled to your opinion. I am entitled to my opinion
of your opinion.
manoj
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