POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.unix: Install script: Re: Install script

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Install script : Re: Install script		Server Time 28 Jul 2024 12:36:09 EDT (-0400)

From: Mark Gordon
Date: 19 Mar 2002 19:53:21
Message: <3c97dd81$1@news.povray.org>

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:36:22 -0500, Felix Wiemann wrote:

> Hi,
> since I removed some files, I had to re-install POV-Ray. When running
> the install script I got an error that the povray-3.4.13 directory in
> /usr/local/share/doc already exists (generated by mv). I found a
> directory /usr/local/lib/povray-3.4.13/povray-3.4.13, which should be
> moved to /usr/local/share/doc. So it would be a great improvement if the
> install script deleted the documentation directory firstly (so that it's
> possible to re-install the beta).
> Thanks in advance,
> Felix Wiemann

The current install script does have the potential to clutter up
/usr/local/share/doc a bit.  I'll make sure the next version cleans up
old doc directories.

-Mark Gordon

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