On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 18:21 -0600, DJ Lucas wrote: > Mark Rosenstand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a simple package manager. Ideally it would be more or > > less the pkg_* utilities that come with the BSD variants. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Did you see the signature appended to your message? > > > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > > There is a section on package management.
Hmm, nice section. I only read the hints on the subject (which I think was pretty much limited to dpkg, rpm and the "package loggers"). Had you not mentioned it, I would probably never have looked. The question in the FAQ says "Why isn't sine package manager in the book?" which I already knew the answer to. Maybe "What are my options for a package manager?", "Is it possible to use a package manager?" or something in those lines would get more attention. They could just link to the current one. > I know nothing of 'pkg_*', but install-log is fairly simple and somewhat > useful. It doesn't account for _updated_ files. it just logs all the > files that are newer than a timestamp. The thing is that I like to have control. I want to build packages with an unpriviledged user (using fakeroot), see if I like the result, and *then* install it. Knowing that a package broke your system doesn't really help anybody... I guess pkgutils (which I already use on my CRUX system) is the closest answer, but it's a little too dumb/simple: it doesn't do *any* dependency tracking (or any sort of metadata) at all. Maybe I should give pkg_install from NetBSD another try, but the requirement of a "nbcompat.h" sort of raised my eyebrowes the last time... Anyway, thanks for the link! :-) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
