On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:25:05 -0600 Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 "David A. Bandel" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can use either checkinstall (not installwatch) for stuff from > > source, or use alien to take stuff from RPM and/or DEB. > > > > And does either of these solutions provide you with an automatically > updated dtabase of installed/deinstalled packages? > > I already know how to do this on my primary distribution - everything > I need is built right in. > > I'm just interested in a real solution to the (as far as I can tell) > surprisingly small number of packages I can find packaged for Slack - > something that I can run and it (like RPM, or like emerge, or like > dpkg) does its work and keeps notes. > > Otherwise, I'll probably loose interest in my Slack distro really > fast. I would think that LFS users face a similar problem. Actually, there are several hints on the lfs website that deal with package management. This one uses a script to keep track of installed files. It's not perfect, but there are others as well. http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/install-log.txt Bill _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
