On 11/27/05, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are multiple advantages that this offers compared to the current > way of installing directly into the final destination:
Just thought of another advantage of the fake root method. If the package installation fails for some reason, we don't have an half installed package in the final destination. For example, when the user is building gcc in BLFS and he runs into a problem during make install. In that case he will have an half installed gcc on his final system. If he had installed it to a fake root, he can investigate the cause, fix it, remove the fake root and run the installation again. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
