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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of George Boudreau
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:00 PM
> To: ALFS Discussion and Development List
> Subject: Re: Jhalfs as a package manager?
>
> David Barron wrote:
> > I'm trying my first installation of 6.2 and just became
> aware of jhalfs. I'm impressed with what I've seen so far.
> Aside from a few MD5 sum's not matching for m4, udev-config
> and lfs-bootscripts it's worked beautifully.
> >
> > Seems that it's building the development book instead of
> the stable book though. Is that right or did I do something
> to tell it too?
> If you wander over to
> http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/wiki/SupportedBooks you
> will find the commands for building development or release
> books (default is
> development)
> >
> > It occurs to me that with a simple internal database of
> what version of each package it has installed and an external
> database of more recent versions to compare against, jhalfs
> could become the long-searched-for package manager for lfs.
> There is a PM available for jhalfs as a patch, PACO. There
> are no plans to force a particular PM on users by embedding
> on in the code.
> >
Ahem. Please disregard my stupid question about what is a PM. Sometimes I'm
so dumb I should wear a sign.
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