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

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