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Re: [ITP] gt5-1.3 -- A terminal program to show disk usage and navigate between directories
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:52:43AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> "Dave Korn" writes:
>
> > On 20 February 2006 21:44, Jari Aalto wrote:
> >> which you can install like any other Cygwin Net Release with:
> >>
> >> tar -C / -jxvf gt5-1.3-1.tar.bz2
> >
> > Yeh, OK, I get all that. What I didn't get is that other source packages,
> > based on g-b-s /are/ for installing live, whereas source packages based on
> > cygbuild don't appear to have that ability and I was expecting to find it in
> > there somewhere without going through the indirect stage of tarring and
> > untarring an installation. (And manually running any postinstall script, I
> > assume?). GBS-based packages you can run the make install step directly into
> > your live cygwin installation; cygbuild-based ones you can't, am I right?
>
> I don't believe g-b-s "install" command does it any differently. The
> whole idea of Cygwin Net Source Packages (here at cygwin-apps) is not
> to install live, but to install files into a separate directory --
> which in turn -- is converted into an installable *.tzr.bz2 packages
> (as above).
>
> Though, I haven't checked in a long time, would anyone comment better?
As someone who has very recently been through the ins and outs of
latest g-b-s, I have to agree with Jari, sorry Dave. g-b-s always
does a DESTDIR install, and I see no way to override that.
Cheers,
Peter