Here are my responses. I use a homegrown pkg manager. It used to be based on the pkg-user + fakeroot approach, but the latest one I am using has the pkg-user stuff removed since I found it was adding a lot of complexity without much benefit. My current PM uses a fakeroot approach by building and fakeroot installation as a non-root user and then untarring the created install tarball with some preInstall and postInstall scripts.
>From the PM techniques mentioned at <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/pkgmgt.html>, I have in the past used Timestamp Based, Tracing Installation Scripts, & User Based Management. [X] I am an editor of LFS or one of the related projects [X] I use LFS as my primary Linux system [X] I use LFS on more than one PC (including virtual machines) [X] 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) NOTE: Currently my primary system is Ubuntu but will soon be replaced with LFS. I use the following package management technique: ( ) It's all in my head! ( ) 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 ( ) Installation script tracing with some other tool ( ) Timestamp-based "find" operation ( ) User-based ( ) RPM ( ) DPKG (X) 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 [X] Ability to upgrade toolchain components (most notably, glibc) painlessly [X] Ability to revert mistakes easily and quickly by installing an old binary package [ ] Ability to compile once, deploy on many machines [X] 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 every minute [~] Can't be used to transfer packages to another machine [ ] Interferes with config.site files described in DIY-linux [X] Will clobber configuration files wen upgrading package versions [ ] Doesn't explain how to package software beyond BLFS [X] Requires learning another language/syntax besides bash shell syntax [ ] Exists at all -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
