Hi!

So I was just curious with what package management system, if any, all the other LFSers are using!

I am currently working at getting pacman running. What about you?

Haha, I am also looking at pacman

I managed to get dpkg installed fine enough, but it's not all that useful tbh.

With pacman, you might get an error about PATH_MAX not being defined, that's because a file is missing a limits.h include but I got another make error shortly after that which I am still looking into.

If I don't stay with pacman, I might look into what slackware has got going on as apt-get looks like a long list of dependencies to run through to get up and running.

I'm also using pacman. When I build 7.4-rc1, I needed to add a header file to curl. Take a look at how
Arch solved it. It worked for me.

I have installed abs from Arch. When I want to install something, I always start with copying their PKGBUILD and then I change it to my needs. Usually I follow the instructions from blfs. So even though I'm rolling my own, it feels like I have a big repo, thanks to the help I get from Arch/abs.

Spooky! I just updated my package manager here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...fs-4175443147/
When you posted this.

I use my own package manager built from the ground up.

Well I think you should all use the package user system from Mathias Benkmann, mentioned in the book. Then you can install from source and keep control of what is being loaded onto your machine. It shows you when anything is trying to be written into a protected directory or if a file is trying to overwrite an existing file. For example, it'll prevent a package from writing to /usr/libexec, which LFS and BLFS (and Arch) don't use. (e.g. subversion and gjs).

It takes a bit more effort because you have to set some directories to the install group and change the permissions, bit IMO it's well worth it.

jb.

I just copy source packages to my /sources directory, build them using the LFS/BLFS instructions, and manage everything myself.

Package manager? I don't need no stinkin' package manager!

Fantabulous! What is the methodology you use?

I mean to have a look at it one day, but feeling too noobooish for it at the moment!


Try looking through Lennie's code. I am halfway through !

That's what I use too.

I'm just about to start an LFS 7.4 build. I think I'm going to compile su.c into su to use in chapter 5. In previous versions of LFS, su was installed in chapter 5 (su-tools) as part of a coreutils build, but sometime relatively recently, su was moved out of coreutils and into shadow, which doesn't get built until chapter 6.

Older versions of the package user hint had a copy of su.c in them that can be quickly compiled with gcc. Su is necessary for the package user management system to work.

Regards,

currently building lfs with a combination of both the user based package management and DESTDIR approach.

I also had trouble with getting su. I ended up using the one from sh-utils.