OK, done. The "bindist" target now creates a binary installer script that has the full version in its filename instead of just $NAME_VER ("grass5"). Therefore there will be unique installers for 5.0.3, 5.3-cvs, etc.
I can't imagine how that would cause troubles for anyone, but am copying this to the list just in case...
Scott Mitchell
smitch@mac.com
On Nov 17, 2003, at 10:45, Markus Neteler wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:39:28AM -0500, Scott W Mitchell wrote:
Actually, the install script created by make bindist does not contain
the release info in its file name, only the platform, so the same name
is used for the script for 5.0.3 and 5.3-cvs
(grass5_powerpc...._install.sh). That is why I created tar files to
bundle together the right script with each .tar.gz file, to avoid
overwriting the script from a previous upload.Aha!
Alternatively, I could manually rename the script files with the
release number in it to keep them separate, OR perhaps it would be good
to alter the build process so that the install script is uniquely named
like the tarball is ?Better to change the build process to avoid such problems.
Since we cannot change 5.0.3 any more, we could change 5.3. Then
we know that the script without the version number is the old
one.The script also contains the size of the tarball, so that's a second
trick to distinguish them.