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Re: Packaging binary open-source apps



On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:14:49AM -0400, Andre John Mas wrote:
:
: I have recently managed to successfully build mySQL
: and since the currently is no binary distribution I
: was thinking of making the build available. The
: question that came to me is what the best a directory
: base would be for the app, either /usr/local/mysql

I personally prefer this one, as it keeps all the MySQL stuff together.
I prefer everything not scattered across the filesystem.

: or /Library/StartUpItems/mysql.

Not here. This is more like /usr/local/etc/rc.d on *BSD systems for
startup items only, not a home directory for a big app.


--
Eugene Lee
email@hidden


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 >Packaging binary open-source apps (From: "Andre John Mas" <email@hidden>)



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