Hans-Kristian Bakke posted on Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:09:58 +0100 as excerpted:
> 2. There is no uninstall target in the btrfs-tools Makefile. How am I > supposed to uninstall btrfs-progs if wanting to go back to older > versions (or newer)? As I run gentoo not debian, I won't try to answer the other. However I can answer this, to /some/ extent anyway. a) (probably not all that interesting to you) On gentoo there's a live- git ebuild available. The PM will track the files it installs just as it would for any other package. (A fake-install to a temp location is done first and the files that appear there are automatically registered for tracking and later uninstall. Then the fake install is copied to the live filesystem.) If your distro has something similar... b) As is often the case with in-development "leaf" packages that are mostly executables and documentation (that is, no libraries/headers/etc that other packages will need), a standard recommendation is to use the files directly from the build dir, without actually installing. So you'd build btrfs, and any time you wanted to use it you'd simply cd to its build dir and do ./btrfs (or other command). Then you'd simply delete the build dir to uninstall. Of course you could manually copy individual files out of the build dir, say to your initr* build, if desired, and track the ones you did just as manually. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
