slack with LFS

citrus · 04-11-2004, 10:07 PM

just wondering if you can use the slack packaging system with LFS

i am about to venture into the LFS world

320mb · 04-11-2004, 10:12 PM

yes!

you'll have to compile from source, but it will work.

citrus · 04-11-2004, 10:42 PM

that rules!!!!!

but what do i have to compile from source?
the packaging system?
is there a specific program to download ?

and does that work for any distro?

citrus · 04-12-2004, 02:42 PM

citrus · 04-14-2004, 01:46 AM

any help?
320MB thanks for telling me it works
now how do i get it to work

dopefish · 04-14-2004, 08:41 AM

Do a search for pkgtools source theres lots of mirrors out there with it

citrus · 04-14-2004, 05:13 PM

thats all you need to get slack packages working with LFS?

dopefish · 04-15-2004, 06:51 AM

Dont know for sure but it should work

CrazyPilot · 04-19-2004, 01:16 AM

you might play around with this: http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/slackware...kgtools.tar.gz

citrus · 04-19-2004, 04:40 AM

thanks

Cerbere · 04-24-2004, 04:47 AM

There's a hint that deals specifically with installing Slack's package tools and checkinstall. Here's a link to the Oregon mirror:

http://lfs.oregonstate.edu/hints/dow.../files/tgz.txt

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

Grymme · 04-28-2004, 05:36 AM

I found something odd in the tgz.txt you posted

"# if not, ( example make install-strip ), run
checkinstall make install"

I believe it should be "checkinstall make install-strip" instead.

Other than that it looks good!

Here's a link to a page on linuxpackages.net with nice information
http://www.linuxpackages.net/howto.p...=Package+Tools

linuxnut2003 · 04-29-2004, 04:31 PM

all you really have to have are the source packages because slackware uses a universal format .tgz which is the same as if you downloaded a tarball with the .tar.gz format