Ken Moffat wrote: > 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 ;)
I haven't been too thrilled about any package managers I've come across, but I think it's because I don't like how they're designed. I've been using scripts to build and install packages and factoring out the common pieces of the scripts, so I only need to maintain one copy of the common parts of code. I do use DESTDIR in my scripts (if it works with the package). If not and there's not another alternative (like PREFIX), I'll go in and patch the makefile so that I can direct all files to the subdirectories I want. The scripts create a tarball of the files installed in DESTDIR and they can also do an inventory of all the files under that directory so I have a file manifest list. I also have a script that installs the tarball to its final location and makes sure there are no file collisions. Another option, I've noticed some tools used with Slackware that will monitor what files get installed. Since you're doing LFS and not BLFS, it may be a little early to start trying to get some tools like that working. (They may need more dependencies built.) Might be worth checking into further though. Sincerely, Laura http://www.distasis.com/cpp -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
