*- Matt Garman wrote about "epkg /usr/local/ package management"
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| I find myself installing things in /usr/local/ occationally. There is
| a type of "package management" system exclusively for /usr/local/.
|
| For folks who do install things in /usr/local/, you may be interested
| in the following:
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| http://www-wsg.cso.uiuc.edu/duct/
| and some more info can be found at
| http://uiarchive.uiuc.edu/encap/
|
| The first URL is a page where you can download "epkg" a more advanced
| version of "encap," which is described in the second URL.
|
| Encap package management basically takes precompiled binaries and
| makes symlinks for you in the appropriate places of /usr/local/. It's
| nothing that couldn't be done manually, but if you install something
| largish or several packages in /usr/local, then it may help.
|
| For example, an encap package is simply a tarball; typically it is
| extracted into /usr/local/encap, making the following directories:
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| /usr/local/encap/<packagename>/bin
| /usr/local/encap/<packagename>/man
| /usr/local/encap/<packagename>/lib
|
| Symlinks are then made from /usr/local/encap/<packagename>/bin to
| /usr/local/bin and so on and so forth.
|
| The definition is a bit sketchy, but if you're interested, check out
| the web pages.
|
| There is a distribution, Nomad (www.nomadlinux.com) based entirely on
| this system, and the developing University of Illinois Linux distrib
| is based on this.
|
| I find epkg works great with dpkg -- the two never know each other
| exist, and they never get in each other's way (so to speak). Epkg is
| entirely /usr/local, and dpkg handles the rest.
|
| I thought perhaps someone would find this useful, especially if you
| play around in /usr/local often. I used it to install xemacs 20.3,
| because xemacs 20.4 has the gpm console ctrl-z bug.
|
Don't know if you know of this alternative or not. Debian already has
a similiar product packaged called 'stow'. It works in exactly the
same way.
Package: stow
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 141
Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 1.3.2-10
Description: Organiser for /usr/local/ hierarchy
GNU Stow helps the system administrator organise files under /usr/local/
by allowing each piece of software to be installed in its own tree under
/usr/local/stow/, and then using symlinks to create the illusion that
all the software is installed in the same place.
--
Brian
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