23 Jan
2015
23 Jan
'15
4:48 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 07:13:15PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 05:48:54PM +0100, Peder
Hedlund wrote:
For the past few years I've used nix for handling things that Debian just can't
seem to keep up with.
Nix is pretty cool, it's uses immutability, like Git or CouchBase or Clojure. Beats
doing a ton of source builds in /usr/local or /opt.
-ken
Quoting Atte <atte(a)youmail.dk>dk>:
I'll just add that the Gobo Linux distribution is built on a
technique similar to stow, using symlinks that allow
multiple versions to be installed, and keeping all files
for each applications separate.
The package manager and administration utilities for Gobo
are written in shell, which makes for interesting reading.
I wanna use non from kxstudio instead of my
compiled version. How do I
completely remove everything installed by hand? Here's what I did and
the result:
atte@skagen:~/software/shared/non$ sudo ./waf uninstall
Waf: Entering directory `/mnt/data/atte/medium/software/non/build'
- remove /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/non-mixer.png
- remove /usr/local/share/pixmaps/non-mixer/icon-256x256.png
I always compile everything with --prefix=/opt/programname-version (e.g.
/opt/jack-0.124.1) and then use stow (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/stow , I use
v1.3.3) to populate /usr/local with symlinks.
The command for that would be 'stow -d /opt/ -t /usr/local jack-0.124.1'
To uninstall just run stow again with the -D flag added and 'rm -rf
/opt/jack-0.124.1'
This way it's also easy to install and test a shiny new version of a program
while still keeping the old and trusted version in case the new one is crap.
Just skip the rm-part.