On Monday 03 March 2008 04:55, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Alexander,
I've added three new options that are important to me and to IPCop. Thanks, IvanK. [ ] 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) [ ] I deviate a lot from LFS (not counting package updates as deviations) [ ] I deviate a lot from BLFS (not counting package updates as deviations) *[X] I use LFS on more than x86 (x86_64, ppc, ppc64, sparc64) I use the following package management technique: (X) It's all in my head! (X) 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 ( ) Simple binary tarballs produced with DESTDIR ( ) Other DESTDIR-based method of producing binary packages (X) Other -- a diff between filesystem state from before and after a package installation (not good with overwritten files) *(X) I rebuild everything every August after a LFS release I *would like to* 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 [ ] Ability to revert mistakes easily and quickly by installing an old binary package [X] Ability to compile once, deploy on many macines [X] Scripting the build I will ignore the future LFS advice on package management if it [ ] Can't be applied on a busy machine where many files are accessed/modified everyy minute [X] 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 [ ] Requires learning another language/syntax besides bash shell syntax [ ] Exists at all *[X] Breaks builds on x86_64, ppc, ppc64, sparc64 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
