[ ] I am an editor of LFS or one of the related projects [ ] I use LFS as my primary Linux system [X] I use LFS on more than one PC (including virtual machines) [ ] I deviate a lot from LFS (not counting package updates as deviations) [X] I deviate a lot from BLFS (not counting package updates as deviations)
* I've hardly had the time to rebuild by hand in the past year or so (I try to do it occasionally, as I always learn something) ... and as such, I've stuck with Gentoo for a while, but having just lost a harddrive, I'm deciding between LFS or Gentoo for my desktop again ... at least one of my old spare systems will always have LFS on it, when I can manage. I use the following package management technique: ( ) It's all in my head! (X) I trust the lists of files in the book ( ) I rebuild everything every three months or less, so there is no need to manage anything! ( ) Installation script tracing with installwatch or checkinstall (X) Installation script tracing with some other tool *(Portage, but that doesn't go near my LFS boxes.) ( ) Timestamp-based "find" operation ( ) User-based ( ) RPM ( ) DPKG ( ) Simple binary tarballs produced with DESTDIR ( ) Other DESTDIR-based method of producing binary packages () Other I use the following features provided by a package manager: [X] Knowing where each file comes from [X] Clean uninstallation of a package [X] Removal of obsolete files when upgrading to a new version [ ] Ability to upgrade toolchain components (most notably, glibc) painlessly [ ] Ability to revert mistakes easily and quickly by installing an old binary package [ ] Ability to compile once, deploy on many macines [ ] Scripting the build I will ignore the future LFS advice on package management if it [X] Can't be applied on a busy machine where many files are accessed/modified everyy minute [ ] Can't be used to transfer packages to another machine [ ] Interferes with config.site files described in DIY-linux [ ] Will clobber configuration files wen upgrading package versions [ ] Doesn't explain how to package software beyond BLFS [ ] Requires learning another language/syntax besides bash shell syntax [ ] Exists at all * Also, if it implements too-strict dependency tracking, I'm likely to ignore it, Portage (and FreeBSD's Ports) is the only PM I've used that didn't drive me insane -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
