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Emerge + yaourt + apt-build/checkinstall + debtorrent/apt-p2p

Posted 04-16-2011 at 04:44 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 04-16-2011 at 05:15 PM by the dsc

Just an idea I had sometime ago, perhaps some bored developer sees it and might want to make it a reality.

It would be quite interesting if such a compiling/packaging system could be made. You compile with whatever flags you want and whatnot just like Gentoo's emerge, then it is converted into a package like apt-build or checkinstall (if emerge doesn't do that already), and then this package is seeded in a community-built meta-repository with many alternatives (somewhat like Arch's...
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Shortest command to calculate the sum of a column of output

Posted 06-02-2010 at 06:27 AM by bittner (Notes on Linux)

I had to calculate the Installed-Size for a .deb control file recently. Here is the solution I came up with:

Code:
dpkg-deb -c mypackage.deb | sed -e 's/.*root\s*//' -e 's/\s*2010-.*$//' | xargs | tr ' ' + | bc
What it does? The code tries to construct a calculation string and feeds it to the command line calculator bc as follows:
  1. use dpkg-deb to get the file size information out of the Debian package
  2. sed away all characters before and after the
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Set up a packaging system on an old laptop

Posted 09-17-2009 at 10:10 AM by henryxcrudos (henryxcrudos' Linux Projects)

I plan to set up a packaging-only system for VectorLinux Light on an old laptop (Acer Travelmate 212TXV). VectorLinux Light is a great, fast, lightweight Slackware-based distribution.

Stage 1: Setting up the system


Installation of VectorLinux Light 6.0

- Burned CD-R from ISO
- Installed distribution using the text-installer
- Booted

Queries:
  1. X GUI Login screen not available, screen blanks after boot

    Suggested
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