Hey!
So I recently built an LFS system, and find myself in desperate need of a package manager. I know benvd's lfs-pacman thing works but I've already made the system. Something like pacman would be amazing, or at least something that syncs to the AUR without all the dependency stuff. Does anyone know of a good package manager for LFS, or created one?
Thanks! - Dill

Is not as "widely famous" for the most (and the most software) in *buntus but GNU\Debian: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...em-4175526423/
APT. I've not built a LFS yet so no real help but you are asking opinions so...

Package manager:
https://github.com/KeithDHedger/LFSPkg
Build scripts:
https://github.com/KeithDHedger/LFSPkgBuilds

Simple Howto's for sysv and systemd.

Wow, this is great, @Keith Hedger! I'll try it on my LFS system and let you know how it goes!

Although its designed to be used from the start of the build, you can start to use it at any point.
Hope you find it useful.

You should use the 10.1 branch rather than the master branch.
git clone https://github.com/KeithDHedger/LFSPkgBuilds.git --branch 10.1 --single-branch

There are many topics about this, use the search to find out more.
In order of simple to integrate to more complex and adding more stuff: porg or LFSpkg, pkgtools (Slackware), pkgutils (CRUX), pacman (Arch Linux), ... can be used by adding a few things. And it became easier and cleaner to do so since LFS-10.0 as they changed the way to build LFS.

Posted a problem, now fixed.
How do I install LFSPkg? I'm in a chroot on SSH.

Just follow the howto, in LFSPkgBuilds or install manually from the git repo.
Obviously if you have build the tools skip that part same goes for building the filesystem, also if you have already installed the base system skip that part of the howto

I know this is a stupid question, but am I supposed to do this from a chroot, or from my host system (Arch)?

from chroot as presumably you have a base system installed

I'd actually use a GoboLinux-like layout; when you don't want the program, you just remove that "app-dir".

It's not a package manager, though, so I would probably use something like pacman from arch.

Note that building a LFS is quite fun and you learn a lot; it's more annoying to want to maintain
it.

Just keeping up on packages that are new, will require some scripts.

I personally actually don't use a package manager right now, I just compile anew. Sometimes I
have to remove files that are obsolete, but here I also try to use scripts that do that for me.

Honestly, after using LFS for a while now, and it being my daily-driver, I don't think you should use a package manager. LFS is designed to be tailored to each user's needs, so a package manager is likely to cause some issues with your system.

If you are set on using a package manager, I have found Pacman to be very easy to install. I use package managers for specific types of packages, such as CPANM for Perl modules, and NPM for Node.js packages, but I think that compiling packages is far better when you are using something as DIY as LFS.

Best of luck!

Depends on what package manager you use, obviously a binary pm is wastfull on LFS but a source based pm like arch or slackware use is ideally suited to LFS ( as is my own LFSPkg, 'coff,coff' ).

Some people recommended pkgsrc, would this be a good tool?

At some point in life (at least where humanity or sanity's not involved ) need to cease participating in these opinion threads, by simply saying: run "populars" and see...

opinions always best when yours!