studying slackware packages

babbab · 01-15-2012, 10:44 AM

I'm not satisfied with SMS based on slack 13.37 nor need all the packages to be installed in slack 13.37 to run only samba and cups

I want to study what package does what and its dependencies

I found cooking up some slack but i don't see about packages. probably it's long topic

Is there any good place to start?

and ultimately making live slackware based cd.

for starter I tried to mount / as ro at fstab and it was mess.

catkin · 01-15-2012, 11:27 AM

The files in /var/log/packages include a package description. IDK about dependency information.

Configuring Slackware for a read-only root file system can be done but is not easy.

Martinus2u · 01-15-2012, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by babbab

I want to study what package does what and its dependencies

I remember someone posting a script that analyses dependencies of binaries and libraries and together with /var/log/packages builds an sql database of package dependencies. You may wanna search for that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by babbab

and ultimately making live slackware based cd.

I wrote about that a long time ago. Probably quite outdated but you may draw some inspiration from it:
http://www.frogge.de/pepper/linux/linuxrouter.html

linus72 · 01-15-2012, 12:38 PM

You may want to check out Salix, they have dependency checking apps too
and I have a Linux-Live that will create a livecd/usb from your slack/salix install

a4z · 01-18-2012, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Martinus2u

I remember someone posting a script that analyses dependencies of binaries and libraries and together with /var/log/packages builds an sql database of package dependencies. You may wanna search for that.

can be found here
https://bitbucket.org/a4z/sbbdep

download of the source package to build the program in one step can be found here
https://bitbucket.org/a4z/sbbdep_slk/downloads

sooner or later there will also be slackware packages, but don't wait for them, cause of work and the move from one country to an other I have currently some time problems.