Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location

[Gary Gatten]

I am only installing from source, I apologize if I lead you to believe otherwise.

I've copied all known 216 dirs and files and have built/installed 2110 using --prefix and several other args to ensure all files were placed under /devel/.  In some cases files were placed directly under /devel/ where I expected a child dir would be created, but that's fine for my purposes.

And yes, I want to execute radiusd from the /devel directory.  I have to tweak the clients file and such, bu should be ready to fire it up shortly.

Thanks all for your help!

G


----- Original Message -----
From: John Dennis [mailto:jdennis at redhat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:54 AM
To: FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Cc: Gary Gatten
Subject: Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location

On 05/11/2011 12:24 PM, Gary Gatten wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt reply!
>
> I'm actually running RHEL.  I couldn't find where "DESTDIR" would be
> referenced, nor that "R=" is a valid argument.  Are these
> 'undocumented' options?
>
> I guess I can try it and see what happens!

You didn't say you were installing pre-built RPM's, that's a different 
matter altogether, I though you were building from source.

You can't simultaneously install two different versions of the same RPM.

Here are a few suggestions for your use case in order of preference:

* Always keep your config files under source code control. That's a good 
idea for a variety of reasons. After you install a new version of 
freeradius from RPM you can tweak to your hearts desire, once all is 
good (or better yet incrementally) commit the files, you can always roll 
back versions at your discretion. Source code control is a good thing 
(tm). If the config is under source code control you'll always have 
history, you can tag working configurations, do experiments, etc. all 
without fear.

* After an RPM install the new config files from the new version should 
appear as xxx.rpmnew if you've modified the previous verserion, where 
xxx is a config file.

* copy /etc/raddb to a backup location.

-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>

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