Hi all, in case you are interested, I also have created a package manager called 'belfs'. You may find stuff about it at https://io.ax.lt/belfs/. Note that my trac is hosted on a very small machine (Atom N270) and my upload bandwidth is not that huge, so it may respond a bit slow.
You will see that belfs is inspired by pacman - while it is by far not that featured. I've started that project just to see how those things may work. Quite interesting is the dependency tracking, belfs does it to a little extend. belfs is based on the DESTDIR mechanism and is capable to download binary packages from a remote belfs-repository-server for installing them on the actual machine. After a new LFS has been built (including belfs installed which i do in my book, see http://io.ax.lt/LFS/lfs/book), it takes only a few moments to have a XFCE desktop running on it. Note that there are no certificates or any other security mechanisms in place (yet). And there are many other things still missing. One big part whats missing is a tool which generates the BELFS.sh file for a package right from the BLFS-books source. Another open thing is how are compiled packages uploaded to the repository server. Currently, they are stored on a NFS share, this does not work well when opening belfs to a wider community than only me inside my LAN. So, if you have a minute to have a look to it, I'd be interested in comments about it! Btw, my LFS book (http://io.ax.lt/LFS/lfs/book) includes also a multilib extension. This is required for my try to get VirtualBox running on a LFS system. -- Thomas P.S.: There are many binary packages (https://io.ax.lt/belfs/dist/binar y/) which are outdated and/or need recompile. They may contain .la files, refer to an old glibc or do simply not work (for example VirtualBox atm) ... It all is under development ... Its homebrewed ;-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
