On a system I am setting up there are a very large number of different
software packages available. The sources live in /usr/local/src and a
small number of the most commonly used ones are installed in
/usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib and so forth. The issue is that any of
the target end users will only want a couple of these. If they were all
fully installed into /usr/local there would be some name conflicts.
They may also be bringing some of their own versions of these, and while
$PATH order can help there, it would be best to avoid those possible
conflicts too. Users don't have priv's to modify /usr/local, so they
cannot install/uninstall there themselves.
So I'm looking for something like
setup software_name install
setup software_name remove
which would install/uninstall the packages (perhaps by symlinks) from
/usr/local/src/software_name
under the user's home directory. The goal is that the setup scripts NOT
be constructed by hand. It would have a
setup software_name install
which would emulate a:
make install
and automatically translate it into the appropriate setup commands.
Some of these packages have hundreds of programs, so anything manual is
going to be very
painful.
Anybody seen a piece of software like this?
I don't expect this to work in all cases. Some of these packages hard
code paths into the binaries and/or scripts. The only hope for them is
for the user to do some variant of:
cd $HOMEDIR
(cd /usr/local/src; tar -cf - software_name) | tar -xf -
cd software_name
make clean #pray that it gets everything!!!
./configure --prefix=$HOMEDIR
make
make install
There is a file which documents how to build each package, although it
is nowhere near complete at this time.
Docker is already available if the user wants to go that route, which
avoids this whole issue, but at the cost of moving big images around.
Thanks,
David Mathog
mat...@caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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