dep, FHS, Slackware

[Collins]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 "David A. Bandel"
<david at pananix.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:35:01 -0600
> begin  Myles Green <mylesg at nucleus.com> spewed forth:
> 
> > On Monday 01 July 2002 05:42, Collins wrote:
> > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:05:53 -0700 Ken Moffat
> > > <kmoffat at drizzle.com>
> > >
> > > 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?
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