Hello, So Neil posted some weeks ago about checkinstall [1] I've been wanting to experiment with ninja[2] too. So has anyone combined both tools?
While I'm at it I'd like to be able to construct a complete DAG [3] from theses installed files and the related dependencies; very flexible on this part, trying to learn more about the uses and visualizations of a DAG [4]. Eventually, I want a custom build system, for rapidly prototyping code from a variety of tarballs that are not part of a regular build package system; that yields control, file tracking and visual tools of the tree, particularly advanced math [5] and science codes. Ph.D (science) folks are often very smart, but they sometimes do 'wacky' things with codes. I also need to be able to ' partially unwind' and/or removed everything installed, confidently. I have other boxes to do this work on, but yea eventually it needs security (sandbox et al) but fist get it working; then tighten up on security. The authors are trusted as to intent, but not as robust admins. Any discussion, guidance or wiki links to something similar is most appreciated. I also have the intention of testing this system on minimize (gentoo) and embedded systems as a sort of system that lives completely on a usb stick, for easy removal. James [1] http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ [2] http://github.com/martine/ninja [3] http://furius.ca/snakefood/ [4] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24936580/c-c-implementation-of-a-directed-acyclic-graph [5] http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/graphs/sage/graphs/digraph.html
