On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:39, Timothy Grant wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 01:25 pm, Matt Garman wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:07:09PM +0100, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: > > > Is there any way with standard-gentoo tools to also keep track of > > > software installed with ./configure && make && make install? I used > > > install-log with LFS, but if there's a chance to use a different > > > system I would be glad to hear about it. > > > > I'm not sure about the "standard gentoo" requirement, but a very good > > manager of compiled-from-vanilla-source packages is epkg: > > > > http://encap.cites.uiuc.edu/epkg/ > > > > It is similar in concept to GNU stow. > > I use stow, never heard of epkg before, can you elucidate on the > differences between them, or perchance why epkg is a better choice?
Why just not write an ebuild. Often even the skel ebuild just works with your package, and you just need to add the url. (/usr/portage/skel.ebuild) It is really easy to write ebuilds, and if you made some mistake you can often just go on where you left after correcting the problem. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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