dep, FHS, Slackware

[Bill Davidson]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:25:05 -0600
Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 "David A. Bandel"
> <david at pananix.com> 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

Bill