[Infrastructures] make install only?

Devdas Bhagat Devdas Bhagat <devdas@dvb.homelinux.org>
Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:37:19 +0530


On 09/10/05 17:27 +0000, Bennett Todd wrote:
<snip>
> I'm not a python expert either, but I needed to package isconf to
> deploy it at work; that involves compiling it one place, doing the
> make install to a second (in this case, python setup.py install),
> and actually running it from a third. What's more, work standards
> strictly prohibit an installed package making any reference to the
> build or install-staging areas.
> 
Perhaps poaching Gentoo's portage/sandbox system for such tasks might be
useful. A make buildpkg builds a tarball of the installed stuff which
can just be untarred in / to install.

Devdas Bhagat