On Thursday 24 November 2005 7:39, David Raine wrote: > >I just got the 0.18.1 working (from .deb) on a fresh debian sid > >install > >(after giving up on KnoppMyth R22) and I am wondering whether it is > >possible to compile and install the SVN head so it would be able to > >coexist on the same setup where I got the 0.18.1 stable working? > > > >Note that puting SVN to /usr/local (while the stable lays in /usr) > >and > >renaming the database (I don't mind keeping two databases) might not > >be > >enough so I decided to ask if someone runs such setup successfully. > > I have both on my system - 0.18.1 for the g/f (stable, no change to > behaviour) and latest SVN for when she's out and I can try out the > bleeding > edge. > > I installed one to prefix=/usr/local/mythSVN and the other to > prefix=/usr/local/mythSTABLE. I then have a script that removes and > recreates symlinks to /usr/local/myth as required - this way I don't > have to > change the PATH for the mythytv user. I do have to re-run ldconfig > after the > symlinks are set up to make sure the libraries are referenced OK.
This is *exactly* what GNU stow is for. http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users