Kevin Williams wrote: > I think, my first question wasn't what it was intended to be. Certainly > it was my fault. > I was trying to know, if I start jhalfs and configure it for BLFS, would > it start with the > commands from BLFS or would it start with LFS and then proceed to BLFS ?
Well with this you can only configure one book at a time, so you first configure and build LFS, then configure and build BLFS. > have been > installed using the tool". Thus, I couldn't tell if it only saved > package names > OR tar.gz'd package OR the individual files of a package or their names. It only saves the package names and possibly the versions. > > >It's possible, there was a patch to add paco support to jhalfs that was > >included in a few of the past versions of jhalfs, but it wasn't being > >maintained by the person who created it for a while and was eventually > >removed. > > Yeah ! I read that ! What was discussed was about the xsl files. Which > would require > knowing xls !! I were wondering if I could simply insert a command > somewhere. I guess, > I found a way. It is not so easy and would require editing each of the > scripts and changing > the 'make install' lines. Possibly some scripting using sed can achieve > this. Not sure, > how I could do the same for those packages which, do not include a 'make > install' line and > those which, dynamically create files (convert-mans script which > converts man pages for eg.). Unfortunately that's why doing it at the xsl level works best, then it's already generated and doesn't require manual editing. > > Personally I feel that, package management is necessary keeping in mind, > 100's if not 1000's of > files abandoned by packages that were upgraded somewhere along the time. > Without PM, it becomes really difficult to keep track of files which are > no longer needed. I use paco for this. only to keep track of installed > files (for clean removal). > I would agree about that too, package management is almost necessary, removal is one benefit, I use it more for knowing what the heck I have installed on the system, especially if I want to add a new package. Thomas P.S. Please send your emails in plain text so they won't have to be approved every time, HTML mail is always held for moderation due to a lot of spam being sent that way. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
