Mhac Janapin wrote: > I was thinking more of 'packaging.' Well of course > Slackware would allow you to tweak around with the > sources, too. But that would defeat the purpose of > installpkg! You might as well go LFS.
Not necessarily. Like I mentioned before, I find it very easy to download source .tar.gz's and turn them into .tgz packages. When tweaking sources, this is probably what I would do: a) get the .tar.gz source b) unpack into package-x.y.z/ and do make install PREFIX=/pkgcreate/usr/local c) create a .tgz package out of the files found in /pkgcreate d) installpkg the new .tgz e) make my changes to the any source code in the make directory found in step b) f) remake but not necessarily reinstall g) just cp over to whatever directory the changed binar(ies) belong to. The point of steps a)-c) is to let Slackware know which files are associated with this package so you can cleanly uninstall it any time, *even if you have tweaked it*. Regarding step f): There *might* be packages for which the make install routine does something funky, so in those cases you might find yourself needing to do a make install and the corresponding makepkg-removepkg-installpkg cycle with each new compile cycle, but I doubt you will encounter this often if at all. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
