[Lazarus] Update Lazarus from svn, what happens on rebuild?

[Bo Berglund]

Say I have retrieved Lazarus sources from SVN and worked with it some
time.
I usually install certain extra packages suiting my development
projects etc.
Now I update from SVN and rebuild Lazarus, is there some way to make
sure that what non-standard packages I had installed earlier gets
installed again?

The reason I ask is that I have run into a problem with a Raspberry Pi
installation the other day. I wanted to install fpWeb, which is part
of available packages in Lazarus. I had already installed two packages
via On Line Package Manager and one from sources copied into the
components dir.
What happened is that the rebuild IDE failed and I could not get it to
succeed no matter what I tried, so I did this:
- Closed Lazarus
- Navigated into the Lazarus/2.0.6 dir and then
- make clean
- make bigide OPT=-dFPC_ARMHF FPC=/home/pi/bin/ppcarm

After this was done (no errors) I opened Lazarus and found that the
extra packages I had previously installed was missing from the palette
so I had to re-install them. This worked without the previous errors,
though.

Is there some method in this case to actually get Lazarus populated
with the previously configured set of packages without starting over
from scratch?

I assume the same would be needed if I update from SVN and then
rebuild Lazarus?


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden