dep, FHS, Slackware

[Collins]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:55:55 -0500 "David A. Bandel"
<david at pananix.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:25:05 -0600
> begin  Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> spewed forth:
> 
> > 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.  
> > 
> 
> 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.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
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