Le 22/05/2012 01:58, Armin K. a écrit : > Also, I see you mention package managers ... For me, Debian's dpkg is > the hardest one. debian/rules file uses Makefile syntax which I am not > familiar with. Red Hat's rpm uses some kind of spec file which doesn't > seem that hard to understand, but still it's medium-hard for newbies and > for me, too. Gentoo's portage is difficult like hell, I never even > bothered to look at one of it's files. Archlinux's pacman seems most > easiest. It uses bash syntax, it's just like LFS "input" commands are > pasted into that file. So, if you people decide to "make book generate > spec files", go for pacman, it will be the most easiest to implement. > Hi, It depends on what you want to do with a package manager. I would separate two main uses : (a) Building from sources using a spec file. (b) Packaging and installing.
As far as (B)LFS is concerned, (a) involves some kind of rewriting of the book instructions to make a spec file. I do not know whether it is the purpose of (B)LFS to show how to do that. Among the PM I know (mainly dpkg and pacman), pacman is by far the easiest for this purpose. The spec files used by Bent linux were very simple too, but the project seems to have been stale for a few years. I agree that dpkg is more work to learn, but at least it is Makefile instructions, not a completely new language as rpm. If the only aim is to do (b), and I would believe that it is what is needed by (B)LFS, dpkg is by far the simplest: it amounts to build per the book instructions adding DESTDIR to the install commands, making a very simple description file (sample below), and running dpkg-deb then dpkg -i. Even Pacman is slightly more complicated, because (a) and (b) are not well separated. The advantage is that the PM warns you about overwritten files, and you can uninstall with just one command. Sample of the description file for gcc in chapter 6 of LFS: ----------------------------- cd $DESTDIR mkdir -v DEBIAN cat > DEBIAN/control << EOF Package: gcc-lfs Version: 4.4.3 Architecture: i386 Maintainer: Pierre Labastie <lnim...@club-internet.fr> Depends: mpfr Provides: gcc, g++ Description: GNU compiler collection (C and C++) This package is the LFS installation of the GNU compiler collection, which contains only C and C++. You need to install gcc-blfs for the other compilers. EOF ------------------------------ Only five lines are mandatory: Package, Version, Architecture, Maintainer, Description. Depends and Provides are of course rather useful. It can be made (slightly or much) more sophisticated, regarding the post installation instructions and the management of config files. This is the same for other PMs. Those sophistications are not really needed for (B)LFS, IMHO. Regards Pierre -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
