Encap Programs

[Warren Raquel]

Maybe it was a UI thing. http://encap.cso.uiuc.edu/ The concept was to
compile a program into it's own directory, say, sendmail.
I would compile it to /usr/local/encap/sendmail-1.2.2.
that directory would have all of sendmail in it, /etc /bin, /sbin, etc.
The encapping program would then move recursively down that directory
creating symbolic links to the corresponding root directories.

The advantage is if I wanted to move to a new version I would compile
everything into a new directory like /usr/local/encap/sendmail-2.0.2 then I
would de-encap the sendmail-1.2.2 version removing all the symbolic links
then encapping the 2.0.2 version. If something is screwed up I just go back
to the 1.2.2 version without dealing with remivng 2.0.2 files. Basically
it's another package management format. I was wondering what else is out
ther.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dustin Mollo" <dustin at sonic.net>
To: <talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: Encap Programs


> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:47:06PM -0800, Warren Raquel wrote:
> > Anyone here use encapping programs?
>
> Maybe you could enlighten us as to what a "encapping program" is??
>
> Are you talking about packet capture type stuff?  What are you trying to
do,
> or what would you like to accomplish?
>
> -Dustin
>