[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. > > There's some threads about PM in lfs-support list, such as http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2007-January/032283.html Some tools talked about like xstow might be what you want. > 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? > In my opinion, there's no smart way to handle the dependencies. If you prefer to fix dependencies automatically, Gentoo might be a better choice. Of course, you can try to write your own ports system, like portage in Gentoo. > I hope my english is not too bad. :D > > greets > christian > >
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