> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of George Boudreau > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:00 PM > To: ALFS Discussion and Development List > Subject: Re: Jhalfs as a package manager? > > David Barron wrote: > > I'm trying my first installation of 6.2 and just became > aware of jhalfs. I'm impressed with what I've seen so far. > Aside from a few MD5 sum's not matching for m4, udev-config > and lfs-bootscripts it's worked beautifully. > > > > Seems that it's building the development book instead of > the stable book though. Is that right or did I do something > to tell it too? > If you wander over to > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/wiki/SupportedBooks you > will find the commands for building development or release > books (default is > development) Good information there, thanks. So it defaults to the development book. > > > > It occurs to me that with a simple internal database of > what version of each package it has installed and an external > database of more recent versions to compare against, jhalfs > could become the long-searched-for package manager for lfs. > There is a PM available for jhalfs as a patch, PACO. There > are no plans to force a particular PM on users by embedding > on in the code. > > Excuse my ignorance but what is a PM?
Also, the maillist archive mentions some advances to the BLFS book. Are those available for average people like me to use? > > OK, now that I've gotten that out of my system you can > begin slapping > > me around for my cheek. :) > > > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
