Chapter 6 of the LFS book deals with the use of package managers. I am curious to know how any of the ones described would actually work in the LFS ecosystem.
A package manager is a tool for automating updates. It therefore seems to depend on the existence of a repository with the following characteristics: 1) Someone keeps it filled with the latest versions of all the packages, so that the package manager can tell when an update is needed. 2) For a source-based distro, automated build scripts are also available. 3) There is automatic tracking of dependencies. It seems to me that none of these conditions are met by LFS, although I suppose you could use ALFS to fulfil condition 2. I must admit, I haven't been updating much, just using each system as a build host for the next one when a new book comes out, which is probably very bad practice security-wise. What do other people do? -- H Russman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
