[rescue] UNIX packaging

[velociraptor]

On 2/28/06, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:18:27PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Kevin Loch wrote:
> >
> > >> IRIX is a great example.  Yes, your paths rapidly get very, very
weird.
> > >> That's just SysV brain damage.  Standards (practically) mandate that
> > >> your $PATH be fifteen lines long :P
> > >
> > > Diddn't /opt die a quick and violent death?  Surely people aren't
> > > still using that?
> >
> > I tend to use /opt for unbundled software (ie: commercial software) and
> > /usr/local for the software I compile site-local.  So much commercial
> > software -assumes- a SysV path layout ($someroot/$application), so I
> > root that software in /opt.
>
> Increasingly I'm using /opt for the software I build myself since I keep
> finding myself needing or wanting to keep multiple versions of various
> packages.  /opt/package-x.xx seems to be more convienient than
> /usr/local/package-x.xx to me.

You might want to have a look at "depot":

<http://asg.web.cmu.edu/depot/>

Our software tools team at Cisco and also on a volunteer hosting system
I'm involved with use this.

=Nadine=