From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-11-23T19:27:05+09:00
Subject: Re: RPA and iowa

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:56:50AM +0900, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> However, I don't have a clue as to where RPA put the
> "examples/webrick/iowa" directory, or for that matter, if it even
> installed that directory at all.
>
> Can anyone point me to where that directory lives when iowa is installed
> via RPA?

The documentation is installed under $prefix/share/doc/rpa0.0; this is
followed consistently for all ports.
 
You can get the list of files associated to the iowa package with
  rpa info -Dfiles -x iowa
 
> And if indeed SourceForge is a better choice for iowa downloads, what
> will happen from now on if I give up on RPA?  In using it for this iowa
> download, it created a package tree that contains the installations of
> iowa and all its dependencies, some of which are upgrades of packages
> that I had previously installed outside of RPA.  If I stop using RPA,
> will I have to remove the RPA package tree in order to keep my installs
> in sync? 

There is no need to remove the packages: note that rpa-base installs
the .rb files under $prefix/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 (i.e. the standard
library path), and they are used with the normal Kernel.require.
The files under $prefix/lib/ruby/rpa0.0 would only be used if you  
  require 'rpa'

If you don't want to use it anymore, you can remove rpa-base itself with
  rpa remove rpa-base
This is not atomic for obvious reasons ;)
The scripts that use "require 'rpa'", if you have written any, would
stop working. If this is a problem and you still want to remove rpa-base,
you can create a dummy rpa.rb like

RPA = Struct.new(:version).new

> If so, will I have to re-install everything that RPA has
> recently put under its tree?

No. You can install over files "owned" by rpa-base. The files in the
standard site_ruby dir will be used preferentially, unless you
explicitly  require 'rpa' .

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