[Savannah-register-public] [task #6610] Submission of local-install

[Vegard Nossum]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?6610>

                 Summary: Submission of local-install
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: vnossum
            Submitted on: Saturday 03/10/2007 at 15:40
         Should Start On: Saturday 03/10/2007 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Tuesday 03/20/2007 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=9157> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=9157>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *local-install*
* System Name:  *local-install*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License V2 or later

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==== Description: ====
`local-install' is a program that automatically configures, compiles, and
installs (in particular, GNU) source packages.

Many GNU/Linux distributions provide their own software repository software
which installs site-wide software. Many times, it is hard to install software
which has not been packaged to be used specifically with this package manager
software because such out-of-band installations might clutter or interfere
with the managed installations.

`local-install' is not a software repository, nor a package manager. It is a
tool to help users install (and uninstall) packages which use the GNU
autoconf/automake system to any of the user's writable directories. The
typical usage scenarios are:
* When a user wishes to install/run a program, but does not have
root/administration privileges.
* When a user wishes to install/run software that is not included in the
site's software repository.

`local-install' will by default create a directory structure which looks like
this:
        $HOME/local/
        $HOME/local/<path> -> ../var/pkg/<package-name>/install/<path>
        $HOME/local/var/
        $HOME/local/var/pkg
        $HOME/local/var/pkg/<package-name>
        $HOME/local/var/pkg/<package-name>/build
        $HOME/local/var/pkg/<package-name>/install
        $HOME/local/var/pkg/<package-name>/source

`local-install' is incomplete. More information can be found in the TODO
file.

`local-install' is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.

The first (and latest) version of `local-install' can be downloaded from
http://peltkore.net/~vegard/local-install-1.0.tar.gz






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