On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:55:55 -0500 "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:25:05 -0600 > begin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > > > 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. > > > > checkinstall builds an RPM (or DEB or TGZ) and installs it using the > appropriate package manager so the database is current. > > [snip] > > > > > Otherwise, I'll probably loose interest in my Slack distro really > > fast. I would think that LFS users face a similar problem. > > Duh. I install popt, then rpm, then checkinstall as early on as > possible(just after I install db). Then I go back and run > checkinstall to create the RPMs for all already installed packages, > and as I continue to build, create/install RPMs, all the while > updating the database. > > LFS isn't a real system. It lacks libpam (I install that just > before shadow-utils and build shadow w/ PAM), dcron (what's a UNIX > system without cron?), db, sendmail, and a passel of other necessary > items making RPMs as I go. This allows me to upgrade/remove > packages at will. It will give you the same ability w/ Slackware. >
Thanks again. Will store these things away for that time when I fel like playing with my Slack distro again. -- 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.
