On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 08:08:17AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > > The problem you describe is one of the reasons I choose pacman package > manager. > I get a build.log as well as a file.log for every package that I build. > It made this easy, as I just have a PKGBUILD that describes how to build > the package then pacman builds the package. My scripts control what is > built and what order. > I adding the logging. Also after installation I can query pacman as to > which package "owns" a file and it will also show me if two packages > have the same file. >
Thanks for your comments. I have loathed package managers for a very long time, so I'm not in a hurry to try pacman. I might take a look at it later, but rebuilding my scripts is enough of a task that I'm in no hurry to add extra files to the process. Meanwhile, 'Plan B' is trying to get started ;) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
