On 10:49 Thu 03 Apr , Meir Kriheli wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 23:07, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > > As I just installed Gentoo the first time 3 days ago (I was using Linux > > From Scratch for 2.5 years now but I got sick of tracking all dependencies > > when keeping the major packages up to date) I'm not sure if that's just a > > stupid question but skimming through some documents and searching on the > > web didn't answer my question. > > > > 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. > > > > Any help, or references to www/man/info are welcome, > > Jan > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > Why don't write an ebuild and place it in your local PORTDIR_OVERLAY, and let > portage manage and track the installation ? > > Writing an ebuild is quite easy (if you can handle bash scripts your already > know how). > > Take a look at the simple ones in portage, and read the documentation: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml > > -- > Meir Kriheli > MKsoft systems > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > If you do wrie an ebuild, you might as well subit it to Bugzilla as well(bugs.gentoo.org). Takes five second to you and enhances portage for everyone else.
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