From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c06ed2b443abb1e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!134.158.69.22.MISMATCH!in2p3.fr!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [gnuada, question] installations directory Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:22:15 +0100 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <3493422.lguGe5BJ0b@linux1.krischik.com> References: <1150472.HIHOOy7jJt@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-74-134-212.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1136220332 31775 84.74.134.212 (2 Jan 2006 16:45:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:45:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.10 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2416 Date: 2006-01-02T17:22:15+01:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <1150472.HIHOOy7jJt@linux1.krischik.com>, Martin Krischik > writes: > >> We could - just like GNAT/Pro on Windows - install each GNAT into a >> separate directory. >> >> ---- >> >> Option 1 (leave as is) >> >> /opt/gnat >> >> >> Option 2 (just the types): >> >> /opt/gnat/gpl >> /opt/gnat/gcc >> >> Disadvantage: you can still only configure one system in /etc/profile.d >> and /etc/ld.so.conf.d. >> >> Option 3 (inc. version); >> >> /opt/gnat/gpl/2005 >> /opt/gnat/gcc/3.4.5 >> /opt/gnat/gcc/4.0.2 >> >> Disadvantage: What should "rpm --upgrade" do? Probably not what half the >> users would expect. > > I don't speak Unix, but several VMS products have the informal ability > to have side versions and also the main version. The main version is > the one in a less-adorned directory name and is the one that gets updated. Which the Red-Had-Packagemanager has not got - hence the question. > You could probably apply that technique to Unix-land, letting the customer > put individual versions in their correspondingly-named directories and > also put one of those versions in a generally-named directory. You could > even have the installation procedure readily do a parallel installation > into a correspondingly-named directory when installing into the generally- > named directory. Only if every version becomes a package of it's own right. But if every version is a package and vice versa you can't do any upgrades. Perhaps to much work for to little gain. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com