05-03-2012
It is not untenable. All you have to do is make the script take input and save the selections somewhere.
If the chosen destination is /opt/yoursoftware/version
you can easily create an /opt/yoursoftware/latest that is a link to the version installed.
Windows does not have the major advantage here. Sure you can play games with the registry, but *nix has been more flexible for decades. Nobody is suggesting you build an alternative to deb or rpm files, but you don't have to use them at all, and it makes it even simpler for dealing with any ELF compatible UNIX.
you have a tgz file, and then it explodes into a directory. That then has an install.sh and perhaps an uninstall.sh and perhaps an upgrade.sh script inside.
They do the right thing, and create backups, and the version management and voila.
If you run uninstall.sh, it then asks if you want to save your current version. If so, you can easily archive it off, because /opt/yoursoftware/latest points to the one they just installed.
This is the way *nix works.
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RAPID(6) Games RAPID(6)
NAME
rapid - content download tool for spring
SYNOPSIS
rapid [options] <action> [<argument>]
rapid-spring [options] <action> [<argument>]
DESCRIPTION
Rapid manages downloads of content for the spring RTS engine.
OPTIONS
action in the command line is one of:
upgrade: Install the latest package for all pinned tags.
clean-upgrade: Equivalent to 'upgrade' followed by 'uninstall-unpinned'.
pin: Pins a tag and installs the latest package for that tag.
unpin: Unpins a tag. Does not uninstall any packages.
install: Install a package. Does not pin any tags.
uninstall: Uninstall a package. Unpin its tag if any.
list-tags: List all tags that contain <argument>.
list-pinned-tags: Idem, but only pinned tags.
list-packages: List all packages whose name contains <argument>.
list-installed-packages: Idem, but only installed packages.
uninstall-unpinned: Keep only the pinned tags and all dependencies.
collect-pool: Remove pool files not needed by any installed package.
make-sdd: Extract pool files into a .sdd archive.
these are the possible options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--datadir=DATADIR Override the default data directory. (~/.spring on Linux or the one reported by unitsync on Windows)
--unitsync Use unitsync to locate the data directory Spring uses.
--no-unitsync Do not use unitsync.
EXAMPLES
rapid pin xta:latest # installs latest XTA
rapid pin s44:latest # installs latest Spring: 1944
rapid upgrade # upgrade all pinned tags
SEE ALSO
rapid-gui(6), spring(6)
AUTHOR
Tobi Vollebregt <tobivollebregt@gmail.com>
This manual page was written by Jan Dittberner <jandd@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
rapid August 2010 RAPID(6)