From: John P. Looney (valen at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Wed 19 May 1999 - 09:51:58 IST
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:47:59PM +0100, Mel mentioned:
> Very often, it's much more desirable to install from source rather than
> rpm or deb or whatever other package is around but they are a bitch to
> uninstall. I was wondering is there any way to "pipe" make install scripts
> through something like rpm so it would remember what was installed and
> where for later removal. Anyone know of such a mechanism
Do what I do:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/packages/packagename
When you make install, you have all your pacakges that were manually added
in /usr/local/packages. Then, make symbolic links into /usr/local/bin or
/usr/local/lib when needed. This way, to upgrade or remove a package, you
just blow away the whole directory in /usr/local/packages, and that's it.
It's a lot easier than keeping make logs, or keeping the old makefiles, and
hoping they have a "make uninstall" like many do these days.
Kate
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