[mythtv-users] Is it possible to have both the release and cvs versions available?

[Cory Papenfuss]

 	GNU Stow probably works fine, but I try to avoid Perl whenever 
possible.  The light-weight "package manager" I use for just about everything I 
roll myself is Encap:
http://www.encap.org/epkg/

You could very easily have one or the other installed and change them out.  All 
files relating to a version live in something like:
/usr/local/encap/mythtv-0.15.0/(bin|lib|share|man)
/usr/local/encap/mythtv-0.15.1/(bin|lib|share|man)
Encap makes symlinks in /usr/local/ for everything recursively.  I swap out 
versions of stuff all the time (like if soemthing needs a moldy old gcc-2.7.2). 
Installing there is generally as easy as:

cd someprogram_src-1.0
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/encap/someprogram-1.0
make
make install
epkg -i someprogram

The only gotcha with it for mythtv would be the database being up/down-graded. 
Otherwise, it'd be fine.


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* Cory Papenfuss							*
* Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Graduate Student                         *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 			*
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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Kristo Kriechbaum wrote:

> You can do something like this very easily with GNU Stow
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/).
>
> This page -
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-stow/ gives a
> good quick intro on how to use it.
>
> Kristo
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:45:24PM -0400, William wrote:
>> I would like to have both the current release version and the cvs version
>> both loaded on the same system. This is to be able to test the cvs before
>> committing to it. Is there a better/simpler way to switch back other than
>> restoring a full backup if I dont like the results?
>>
>> I dont want to screw up a nicely working system by testing the cvs.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>