On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Aaron Burt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:13:20PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >> In an environment of five or six homogenous machines, repeated >> "download, unpack, make, make install" process is time consuming. >> I suppose I should learn to build packages, and it would be a >> little easier. > > You might consider stow or checkinstall. The latter will generate a > package that duplicates what a "make install" does. That way you can > install, remove and version-track your nifty thingies. > > This assumes the machines are binary-compatible, mind.
checkinstall doesn't work for 64 bit machines (at least the last time I tried it). _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
