Sam, Yes, the tool and PLTCONFIGDIR help me better control things. I think the tool is helpful. I ran into a problem with racket trying to delete files and posted it on github at https://github.com/samdphillips/raco-pkg-env/issues/3
I don't think it's really a raco-pkg-env issue, though, i guess it wouldbe more of a racket issue if it is a problem and not a mistake on my part. Nate > On May 18, 2021, at 12:06 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You might also be interested in the new `raco-pkg-env` tool: > https://github.com/samdphillips/raco-pkg-env/ > > Sam > > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:20 PM Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yes, this approach can work. I don't think the existing Racket tools >> will help much with persisting a configuration across versions, though, >> so you'd probably have to script that. >> >> One potential drawback of your approach is that executables, >> documentation, etc., associated with the extra package will get >> rendered into the main installation area instead of the "/opt/Racket" >> are. That may be fine for your purposes, but a more strictly layered >> installation is meant to be possible. It turns out that some pieces >> have been missing for layering, and fixing that is an area of current >> work (https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/dfbb7040a). >> >> At Sun, 16 May 2021 23:43:52 -0500, Nathaniel W Griswold wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I was setting up Racket on my linux box and i realized that there are a lot >>> of >>> options for path configuration and i forgot a lot of what i discovered last >>> time i dug into this. I was trying to set up installation scope but maybe a >>> little cleanly and figured someone might have some input. >>> >>> I want a package at roughly installation scope, but i kinda wanted to know >>> what >>> was added by me and what was part of the default installation. Is this >>> reasonable or should i just deal with it and dump stuff in >>> $RACKET/share/pkgs? >>> If it is reasonable then what is the best way to set this up? >>> >>> Just FYI I did an in-place install of Racket in "/opt/Racket/Racket\ 8.1" >>> symlinked to /opt/Racket... >>> >>> I think maybe what i want is to set to something like >>> >>> (in /opt/Racket/etc/config.rktd) >>> >>> #hash(... (pkgs-search-dirs . "/opt/Racket 8.1/share/pkgs-system" #f) >>> (links-search-files . ("/opt/Racket/share/pkgs-system/links.rktd" #f)) ...) >>> >>> Then i just did a `sudo /opt/Racket/bin/raco pkg install --scope-dir >>> /opt/Racket/share/pkgs-system rash` >>> >>> ... and the new package seems to be working fine for my users. >>> >>> Is that what i wanted or is there something better? Is there a way to >>> configure >>> config.rktd additions that will persist across upgrades or will i have to >>> update my config.rktd for every racket release? Do other people do this >>> kind of >>> thing or just dump stuff in the installation scope? Maybe there are more >>> options with a unix-style install, i haven't really tried one yet. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Nate >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/20210518102000.1b1%40sirmail.smtps.cs.utah.edu. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAK%3DHD%2Ba2G41L5C3v1wPjackfsn0VwtRZEWO7XiW9POS7mWa85Q%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/743645C7-A08D-4F73-B974-74416C975E75%40manicmind.earth.
