[Pmwiki-users] Method to update beta

Christian Ridderström chr
Mon Feb 16 07:01:07 CST 2004


Hi

Here's one way I've come up with to just overwrite an earlier beta with a 
later. The example below assumes that the beta-installation is located in:

	~/wiki.lyx.org/beta

This sequence of (bash) commands will update your beta installation

	beta=pmwiki-0.6.beta15		# Name of beta release
	destDir=~/wiki.lyx.org/beta	# Where to install (must exist)

	pushd /tmp			# Go to temporary directory
	rm -rf /tmp/$beta		# Remove any previous directory

	# Download and extract beta-release (to /tmp/$beta)
	wget -O- http://www.pmichaud.com/pub/pmwiki/$beta.tgz | tar xz

	# "Copy" everything from /tmp/$beta to $destDir
	cd /tmp/$beta && tar c . | tar x -C $destDir

	popd				# Return to your starting directory
	rm -rf /tmp/$beta		# Remove temporary directory

Note: This will not erase any (now) obsolete files, you will have to do 
that manually.

/Christian

PS. You should probably know what you're doing if you decide to use the 
method above :-)

-- 
Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr





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