On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Vitaliy Gorbatyuk wrote:
> I created the fat partition and wanted to install the software there. I
> thought in this way I would solve these 2 problems:
> 1. Anyone from the group who logged in the computer can update the
> software.
> 2. I will avoid all problems and will not need to install the software
> after each upgrade of the linux.
> But I guess I have to do something different. I wonder how other people
> manage their systems. After each linux upgrade I need to install all
> software packages. Beside this, I am facing with additional problems
> which SElinux brings I guess.
Creating a separate partition for the things that take time to recompile
as in 2 is a good idea - but make it an ext2 or ext3 partition so that it
has a proper filesystem on it. Then on re-installation of your system
just tell the installer not to reformat that partition. Beware though
that any upgrade of the system may break library dependencies and mean
that you have to reinstall anyway or find the right backwards
compatability package (but often this is not so).
Andy Herbert posted a nice way of keeping your analysis installation up to
date with a cron job that runs updateAll each night. That can be run as
root and means you don't have to go giving naieve users write permission
to sensitive areas.
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