At 22:29 14/07/01 +0100, Gordon Pearce wrote:
>One of the problems with mix'n'match distros is that paths aren't
>necessarily the same for any given package. For example, Apache on Mandrake
>8 puts its webdocs directory in /var/www/html (wrongly, in my opinion)
>instead of the more common /home/httpd/html.
>Sorting out that lot will just be a nightmare.
Not that big a problem particularly for apache. Much more difficult would
be untangling the relationdship between, say the Xserver and window
manager. By now, the problems of libc5/glibc should all be ironed out, but
there can still be some nasty dependencies waiting in the closet to jump
out and get you. ("closet"? I've come over all american suddenly!)
Actually the default location for apache docs (if you get you httpd from
apache) is /usr/local/apache/htdocs. /var is just as bad as /home as a
location for the webserver documents. Unfortunately (AFAIK) nobody seems to
have set a standard for where system wide application data should reside -
although programs are divided up into /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin,
/opt, ~/bin....but I digress.
I'd agree that mixing your distros is almost as bad as mixing my toasties
(ask any rabbit). Try to get a distribution that fits your hardware and add
anything that's missing from source (c compiler!!!???).
>The good news is that you if you can mount your DOS partition (if it's dual
>boot), you can back up anything you want to keep (stuff from home
>directories?) by archiving with tar, and copying them across. Use tar to
>keep file permissions - if you just copy them to a DOS/VFAT partition, they
>will lose ownership and become chmod'ed 755.
So next time set up a seperate partition for home!
HTH
Colin
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