Re: [Bobs-devel] bobs 0.6.1 install notes

[Joe Z. <jz...@co...>]

Rene Rask wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 21:27, Joe Zacky wrote:
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>>Rene Rask wrote:
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>>>These are some notes on my install of bobs 0.6.1 on a new server.
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>>>-  I could't configure bobs to be placed in "/var/www/html". I manually
>>>moved the files from "/var/www/html/bobs" and edited the config.php
>>>file.
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>>That's correct. Whatever directory you request, it adds /bobs to the end 
>>of the path. I figure that's safer to put it in a separate directory 
>>because I don't want to uninstall something that wasn't installed. If 
>>you run 'make uninstall-all' it will 'rm -rf' the entire bobs directory.
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>Wouldn't it be better to only remove the files we know we installed. And
>the try to "rmdir dirname" for each dir we created. That will fail if
>there are files in the dirs we didn't create. I think that is the sanest
>way of doing this.
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That's what 'make uninstall' does. I added the special 'make 
uninstall-all' mostly for testing. I use it if I want to remove bobs AND 
all the configuration and backup data.

Joe