01 Aug 16 23:24, you wrote to me:

 ml>> i can understand it but it is just weird having to have two copies of
 ml>> the repo... thanks, though!

 AL> Technically, you don't need to keep two copies.  The INSTALL
 AL> instructions, AAMOF, suggest unpacking the tarball to /tmp as the root
 AL> user, running the SETUP.sh script to create the MBSE users and home
 AL> directories, and then logging in as the mbse user to unpack and build
 AL> the software.

that sounds more like what i'd expect... i'll have to dig in a li'l deeper
as i'm pretty sure that the permissions and ownership likely need to be
adjusted so the mbse user can get to them...

 AL> The only file you actually need from that first unpacking is SETUP.sh.
 AL> Once you have run that once to create the users and home directories,
 AL> you can delete that copy.

i guess that works, too :)

 AL> Robert's script just substitutes grabbing the current code from the
 AL> git repository for downloading a tarball and unpacking it.

ok...

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