Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Greg Schafer wrote: >> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >>> does it >>> allow running arbitrary scripts on the DESTDIR contents before >>> actually creating a package? >> Um, I don't think so. However, while Pacman itself is written in C, the >> "makepkg" portion of the system is a Bash script which allows easy >> hackability. That's what allowed Alex Merry to write the fake_install() >> patch that I still use today. > > I.e., writing such patch would be easy. That's enough.
There is a good perl based start to handling the differences in package manager formats. http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/ It's often included as an option in the debian and rpm distros, to increase the ease of finding packages in a package manager format. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
