Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 01:16, Todd Zullinger wrote:
It's not too tough to build an rpm. And I think that it'd be easier
to help someone new learn build an rpm than it would be to help them
recover their system if some important library got accidentally
erased.
There are lots of ways that a system can break. I'd recommend
having a backup of any important files and knowing how to restore
them before spending time learning to either compile or package
things.
That was my point, exactly. I keep my system backed up. This is
the *first* thing a newbie should learn. Before $ make install,
before $ rpm -i, before you name it.
I also nearly always use --prefix, and install into my home
directory, not to /usr/local. I've got a /home/jmccarty/usr/... tree.
If anything goes bad, I just delete the directories altogether.
There is NO UNINSTALL NEEDED.
Mike
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