#2073: Package management page is oversimplified --------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [email protected] Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0 Component: Book | Version: SVN Severity: normal | Resolution: fixed Keywords: | --------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> LFS & BLFS do mention configuration files that may need to be edited Well, they miss some files, or mention them on a different page. E.g., /etc/inputrc (which is, in fact, a configuration file for Readline) is mentioned on the "Creating the /etc/inputrc File" page, while /etc/scsi_id.config is not mentioned at all. If the packager forgets to mention a file, it will be overwritten without backup on a package upgrade. Also, for creation of RPM packages, one must enumerate all files for which a changed MD5 sum is not an error. As for repositories, some package managers (most notably, apt) are meant to be used only with repositories. Nobody uses dpkg directly. Thus, it is natural to mention the task of repository creation. I am not suggesting that these tasks are solved by LFS. It is just necessary to warn the reader that such tasks exist and there are no hints about the possible errors, and that "it's all in my head" and "I rebuild everything every 24 hours" may well be the preferred solutions. -- Ticket URL: <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2073#comment:3> LFS Trac <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/> Linux From Scratch: Your Distro, Your Rules. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
