installing packages using setup.exe from the command line (e.g., remotely)

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> 
> > FWIW, why not
> > 
> > INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/$(cd $PACKAGES_DIR && \
> >   ls -1td $(cat /etc/setup/last-mirror | \
> >     perl -pe 's/([^A-Za-z0-9\-_.!~*()\n])/"%".unpack("H2",$1)/eg') | \
> >   head -1) # most recently modified install dir
> > 
> 
> I didn't know about /etc/setup/last-mirror.  :)
> 
> If we use that, do we still need the ls ... | head -1?  Isn't that enough to
> unambiguaously identify the latest site dir, or is their more going on here?
> 
> cc

Setup can use more than one mirror, all of which will be in 
/etc/setup/last-mirror.  The above snippet selects the latest one, or you 
could update your script to deal with multiple mirrors.
	Igor
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