Apparently, though unproven, at 10:55 on Thursday 23 September 2010, Helmut Jarausch did opine thusly:
> Hi, > > when portage installs a package, it first installs it into some "shadow > root". Then it records all files installed before it moves the files to > the "real root". > > I have to do some installations on SUSE systems (which are not > administered by me) and I'd like to imitate that procedure there. > > Can anybody tell me if it's not too complicated and if yes, how to > achieve this (on a foreign system like SUSE). > > Many thanks for your help, > Helmut. 1. Remove all traces of yast and it's bastard brethren from the SuSE box. 2. Have three qualified sysadmins double check that you have indeed removed every last trace of it. 3. PREFIX=/some/stage/dir/ 4. ./configure && make && make install 5. find /some/stage/dir/ > some_file 6. move everything in stage dir to real dir Why remove yast? Because it's a sneaky P.O.S. and goes to extraordinary lengths to nuke all your hard work done without it. And how you deal with file collisions is up to you. Yast really won't like you if you overwrite some config file with your own testing version. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
