Subj : Incredible!
To   : Andrew Leary
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Aug 04 2016 03:17 pm


01 Aug 16 23:24, you wrote to me:

ml>> i can understand it but it is just weird having to have two copies of
ml>> the repo... thanks, though!

AL> Technically, you don't need to keep two copies.  The INSTALL
AL> instructions, AAMOF, suggest unpacking the tarball to /tmp as the root
AL> user, running the SETUP.sh script to create the MBSE users and home
AL> directories, and then logging in as the mbse user to unpack and build
AL> the software.

that sounds more like what i'd expect... i'll have to dig in a li'l deeper as
i'm pretty sure that the permissions and ownership likely need to be adjusted
so the mbse user can get to them...

AL> The only file you actually need from that first unpacking is SETUP.sh.
AL> Once you have run that once to create the users and home directories,
AL> you can delete that copy.

i guess that works, too :)

AL> Robert's script just substitutes grabbing the current code from the
AL> git repository for downloading a tarball and unpacking it.

ok...

)\/(ark

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