Subj : MBSE, Sysops and distros
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Vince Coen
Date : Mon Aug 17 2015 12:46 pm

Hello Andrew!

Sunday August 16 2015 11:55, you wrote to me:

> Hello Vince!

> 16 Aug 15 14:47, you wrote to RJ Clay:

VC>> Have now installed 106 over the installed 104 still using /home
VC>> instead of /opt.

VC>> Compiling the build was simple  just used

VC>> ./configure --prefix=/home/mbse

VC>> then used the standard su, make install  job done.

> Good; I thought that should work for you.

VC>> We counld update mbsetup to check if the install is NOT to the
VC>> standard /opt and if so migrate the existing file and msg .data
VC>> files to use the new path. That will remove 98% of any migration.

> I will look at this, or maybe a separate program to read the .data
> files are rewrite them with the updated path.

Thanks,  I did take a look at the code via mbsetup but it is beyond my C
skills
to understand what exactly is required.

I just do the easy stuff :)


Vince

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