Hi all, first of all: Sorry for my bad english. :)
I'm experimenting a long time now with LFS/BLFS and i am sure that this is a very nice way for an own, clean version of a GNU/Linux system. But there is one thing which is bothering, namely package management. I installed my LFS system like the book tells but with package users. After that i installed a few packages from BLFS with the use of package users, too, but all in /opt/package-x.xx as prefix. I made a symbolic link for each package in the way /opt/package which points to /opt/package-x.xx, so that i can easily update any package and undo if there are any problems with the new version. All i need to do is to change the symbolic link. The handicap of this way of installation is that i have to put many paths in my PATH-variable which is a little slow by the amount of paths. Now the real questions :) I think that it could be a possibility that i make for each package symbolic links in /opt/bin, /opt/lib, etc. for each binary, lib etc. which is installed by the package. Are there any experiences for that method? Perhaps something i didn't mention so far. Because that way i can only have a few paths to put in my PATH-variable. The other thing i don't know how to handle are the dependencies for each package. How do u know what packages u have to update, if u update one package which has dependencies? do u write all information in one textfile or do u try to install and fix dependency by dependency if the installation fails? I hope my english is not too bad. :D greets christian -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
