How to create a Tagfile for Slackware?

Aquarius_Girl · 02-06-2011, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Slax-Dude

The tagfiles don't need to be on the same directory (much less the same partition) where the packages are located. The tagfiles do need to be located within the same directory structure as the packages ("a", "ap", etc...).

Thanks for the enlightenment.

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Originally Posted by Slax-Dude

Once again, if you don't want to go through the trouble of creating the directory structure with your tagfiles in it, use mine by unpacking the file into your pen drive and edit the tagfiles to suit your needs.

Thank you once again for offering your tag files for the third time

. But when I created this thread I unintentionally created the tagfiles in their proper folders just like your link shows. The only difference is the .org file which I don't have. Can you explain me why is that .org file necessary/compulsory? Can I do without them?

Slax-Dude · 02-08-2011, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Anisha Kaul

Can you explain me why is that .org file necessary/compulsory? Can I do without them?

It's not necessary/compulsory

Yes you can do without them

It is the original tagfile (the unmodified one from the installation cd).
It is there only if you overwrite the original one on the cd (like you intended to do with ISO Master) and messed up. This way you would always have the original one in case of such an emergency

Think of it as "tagfile.original".

When I first did my tagfiles, I used AlienBOB's tagfile generator script and it created the tagfile.org file automatically.

Aquarius_Girl · 02-08-2011, 05:25 AM

Slax-Dude, thanks for being helpful, again,