On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Thomas Gallen<kaori.hin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you referring to manual installation of packages or using the > package management system to install packages in alternate locations? If > it's the latter:
I develop software for a production system that is often lagging behind the mainstream. So, on my laptop and desktop I often have to build older versions of Python, Django, sqlite, etc., to match what's in production. To do that I just build custom versions of Python like ./configure --prefix=$HOME/my/custom/location I've had issues with getting python-sqlite working on Gentoo though, with anything but the version packaged in the portage tree. The pysqlite2 developers weren't much help. > If it's the former though, I've always just created a directory > somewhere as a sandbox and created a file in /etc/env.d to set up my > path, library locations, etc. I almost need multiple boxes to target each release I'm working on, but I can't afford that, so I have scripts to set up environment variables to pick the correct install of Python. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <msoul...@digitaltorque.ca> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein
