THANKS! Re: How can I keep two installations in sync?

Lorenzo Martinelli lorenzo at martinelli.co.uk
Thu Sep 28 08:45:52 PDT 2017


On 28/09/2017 16:25, Roger Bell_West wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 04:18:58PM +0100, Lorenzo Martinelli wrote:
>> Is there a simple way to override GIP's default cache directory? If that were
>> possible, I could point both installations to the same NAS folder and be done
>> with.
>>
>> --profile-dir <dir> does not seem to work in the options file (unless I am
>> doing something wrong)
> Looking at the source code, I guess --profiledir, or set the
> environment variable GETIPLAYERUSERPREFS.
Thanks!

So simple.

GETIPLAYERUSERPREFS works perfectly

I haven't tried --profiledir yet,
It seems to differ from the notation --profile-dir specified in the Wiki 
at https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/options

Lorenzo



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