On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:09PM +0100, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > Is there any way with standard-gentoo tools to also keep track of > software installed with ./configure && make && make install? I used > install-log with LFS, but if there's a chance to use a different > system I would be glad to hear about it.
I'm not sure about the "standard gentoo" requirement, but a very good manager of compiled-from-vanilla-source packages is epkg: http://encap.cites.uiuc.edu/epkg/ It is similar in concept to GNU stow. The basic concept is, rather than letting "make install" put everything in /usr/local/[bin|lib|man|...], you do something ala "make prefix=/usr/local/encap/packagename install" to put all the installed files in another hierarchy, i.e. /usr/local/encap/packagename/[bin|lib|man|...]. You then use epkg to create symlinks from the encap/packagename directory into your actual /usr/local hierarchy. Note this program is not distribution specific. I used it on Debian for years to install the latest versions of some select packages. Good luck. Matt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list