On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:35:01 -0600 > begin Myles Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > > > On Monday 01 July 2002 05:42, Collins wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:05:53 -0700 Ken Moffat > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > Collins wrote: > > > > >Who has a simple howto on maintaining Slack? I'm thinking of > > > > >something with a database of installed packages, of course. > > > > > > > > I thought that was 'pkgtool'. Am I mislead again? > > > > As root in a terminal type 'pkgtool' and have a look > > > > around the installed packages. > > > > > > I don't think you're mislead, but I'm looking for something > > > other than the standard Slack offering, since that only accounts > > > for Slack packages, and there aren't Slack packages for a lot of > > > stuff. > > > > There's always linuxmafia.org for Slackware stuff, you'll find > > quite a bit there. IIRC, doesn't installwatch handle building > > slackware .tgz packages? It's been a few months since I used Slack > > extensively as I've been focusing on Red Hat for the very reasons > > M. Hipp gave at the start of this thread. > > You can use either checkinstall (not installwatch) for stuff from > source, or use alien to take stuff from RPM and/or DEB. >
And does either of these solutions provide you with an automatically updated dtabase of installed/deinstalled packages? I already know how to do this on my primary distribution - everything I need is built right in. I'm just interested in a real solution to the (as far as I can tell) surprisingly small number of packages I can find packaged for Slack - something that I can run and it (like RPM, or like emerge, or like dpkg) does its work and keeps notes. Otherwise, I'll probably loose interest in my Slack distro really fast. I would think that LFS users face a similar problem. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
