Re: Suggestion for Common Third Party Install system
On Saturday 16 August 2003 14:48, Edward Murrell wrote:
> The 'Applications' folder is accessible from the users Control panel as
> a special directory, allowing write access with sudo and the root
> password. The folder itself would most likely sit in somewhere like
> /usr/local/Applications/. Thus, our application 'Foo', would be in
> /usr/local/Applications/Foo/. It's file structure would look something
> like this:
>
> /usr/local/Applications/Foo/
> /usr/local/Applications/Foo/icon.svg
> /usr/local/Applications/Foo/description.en.txt
> /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/bin/foo
> /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/lib/foo/libfoo.so
> /usr/local/Applications/Foo/install/etc/foo/foo.conf
> /usr/local/Applications/Foo/home/.foo/
>
> To install, symlinks from are made from /usr/bin/foo and /usr/lib/foo/
> and /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/lib/foo/ to
> /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/linux/i686/usr/bin/foo, and to
> /usr/local/Applications/Foo/tree/usr/lib/foo/. A copy of
> /usr/local/Applications/Foo/install/etc/foo/foo.conf is made to /etc/,
> so that changes made to the configuration do not affect the original
> files of the program.
This sounds awfully like an extended version of stow. It'd be nice to see
that.
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