[wplug] Managing updates

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:13 -0400, Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
> I did this so I could test the new version without destroying my older
> version.  Now that it works, how do I go about moving it to /bin?
> There are numerous components and I am concerned that a manual move
> will miss something.  Is my only option to rebuild it with --prefix
> set to /bin?  I could leave it in /usr/local but then how do I remove
> ALL of the old version?

If your $PATH has /usr/local/ first, why bother getting rid of the old
one?  And if you're not getting updates anymore, that version of that
distro is probably not supported anymore, leaving you with security
holes.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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