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 racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/20210518102000.1b1%40sirmail.smtps.cs.utah.edu.
