[Xastir-Dev] committed xastir shared files directory change

Alan Crosswell alan at columbia.edu
Wed Jul 2 17:50:23 EDT 2003


Yeah, I hadn't realized Curt put those there.  He's merging his changes to my 
scripts and will delete those to "match the documentation" (my email).
/a

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I notice that in the scripts directory, there exist migrate-config.sh
> and migrate-dirs.sh (dated June 20, by Curt).  Are these replaced by
> the new ones?  I haven't tried them.
> 
> Bob, N7XY
> 
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:26:27PM -0400, Alan Crosswell wrote:
> 
>>At Curt's urging (he's been inhaling paint fumes too much:-) I've committed 
>>the previously-discussed changes to move the shared files directory from, 
>>for example, /usr/local/xastir to /usr/local/share/xastir (if you use the 
>>default --prefix with configure).
>>
>>I've also added scripts/xastir-migrate.sh and scripts/xastir-fixcfg.sh.  
>>The former should be run after make install.  It moves maps, etc. from the 
>>old place to the new place.  The later script fixes up a user's existing 
>>xastir.cfg to reflect the new locations.
>>
>>Please test these changes *a lot* to make sure the migrate and fixcfg 
>>scripts do the right thing.  Make a backup of your maps first!
>>
>>Once we are happy with the scripts, we can update the INSTALL and/or 
>>UPGRADE docs to add the steps to run the scripts.
>>
>>Newbies to xastir will not need to run these scripts at all;  They are just 
>>a one-time transition tool for existing users.
>>
>>As usual, these files will not show up for 24 hours or so.
>>/a
>>
>>
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