On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:20:29 -0400 Bill Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:25:05 -0600 > Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 "David A. Bandel" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > Actually, there are several hints on the lfs website that deal with > package management. This one uses a script to keep track of > installed files. It's not perfect, but there are others as well. > > http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/install-log.txt >
Thanks to Bill and Llama for the responses. I will check them out when I have time. -- 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.
