On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 11:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:55, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > 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. > > This brings up another problem with packaging. Anything I'd > be likely to compile myself these days is probably very > experimental and I might like to have 2 or more versions > to compare them or to have a known-good version if the > latest one blows up. You can do that with many source > bundles with the --prefix option and using explict paths > to execute the programs. How do you do it with RPM packaged > items? Exactly as you say. By using different installation prefixes - inside of the rpm.spec. Additionally you'll have to use non-conflicting rpm package names. Ralf
