On 11/8/06, Mhac Janapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When tweaking sources, this is probably what I would do: tweaking sources is not a problem for me nor for any slacker in this regard. > a) get the .tar.gz source > b) unpack into package-x.y.z/ and do > make install PREFIX=/pkgcreate/usr/local > c) create a .tgz package out of the files found in > /pkgcreate > > and like what i said, too, steps a-c are the very reasons i stepped out of gentoo and moved on to slack. im running slack11 now.
Too bad you did not look deeper. This is very easy to do since Gentoo records all installed files in /var/db. And the buildpkg FEATURE already existed since Gentoo 1.0 (2002). As a former Slackware user i do not recall/see any advantage over Gentoo. - ed _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
