Re: [Denemo-devel] Release

[Richard Shann]

good work!
I believe that /usr/ is meant to be used for files visible to everyone
on the network and /usr/local is visible to everyone logged into the
local machine. They may require different permissions.
If you have a single machine then they are both visible to the same
people and are writable by the same superuser.
If I'm right about this (I've never read it up, I'm just guessing)
then /usr/local is the one that more people will be able to use. The
option to install to the user's home directory would be even more
friendly.
Richard

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 10:05 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 17:41 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > Yes. The user could download the .deb and install it easily. Once I
> > > figure out how I would like to turn a directory into a repository so
> > > that debian or ubuntu users would get updates automagically from their
> > > package manager.
> > I think the .debs will make a big impact on take-up of Denemo. The
> > automagic update I would not encourage yet - it can be upsetting if the
> > behaviour of a program you are using changes without warning, and we
> > haven't got a test infrastructure active: we need feedback on new
> > releases.
> 
> I looked into creating .debs for ubuntu. The process is extremely easy
> with this utility called checkinstall. I simply run:
> ./configure
> make
> checkinstall
> 
> It then installs it and creates a binary .deb for you. This way it can
> be easily installed/removed.  For the distributed .deb should we have
> the prefix=/usr so denemo gets installed in /usr/bin/ instead
> of /usr/local/bin? I thought /usr/bin because users could install cvs
> then in /usr/local/bin. Usually though /usr/local is for non-distro
> packages. So then should the prefix be /usr/local? What do you guys
> think. I am ready to upload an ubuntu .deb's.
> 
> Jeremiah
>