You should be able to avoid recompiling (& reinstalling) many of your
programs if they are linked to libraries which are also located on the
same non-system partition.
Cheers
Andy
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 09:42 +0000, Brian Smith wrote:
> 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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