Bryan Kadzban wrote: > I'm going to tentatively vote -1 for package management in LFS -- that > is, unless it doesn't break my current package management setup > (pkg-user hint FTW!). If the changes don't break the pkg-user hint, > then I'd say +1; it's worth a shot at least. DESTDIR=$dest on all the > packages, for instance, shouldn't hurt if $dest is empty. > > Obviously $dest must be "chgrp install && chmod 1775" in such a case, but beyond that i found it actually _improved_ on the pkgusr method - it even negates one or two of the gremlins mentioned in the hint, & allows for additional install-dir's to be correctly created when needed, like during X-installation.
There are a couple of packages in LFS that don't play nice with $DESTDIR (i think 'shadow' was one), but hopefully more adept minds than mine would be able to resolve those issues, if this proposal goes forward... taipan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
