Re: Package management idea

Hi,

> First of all, please accept my apologies if what I'm about to write 
> seems rather incoherent or is just plain impractical - I'm not a linux 
> guru (candidate for 'Understatement of the Year' there :-) ) and don't 
> really know what I'm talking about :-)
> 
> Anyway...
> 
> I've been thinking about package management and, having read the hints, 
> I feel that a combination of package users and fakeroot fits my needs 
> the best.  However, there seem to be a few problems with fakeroot and 
> packages hardcoding directories into the compiled programs so...
> 
> Is it possible/feasible/(desirable?) to install the tools needed to 
> compile and install a package into a directory other than the norm (say 
> /fr/<whatever> for 'fakeroot') and then create links in the appropriate 
> places to the installed files (so that the system doesn't start 
> complaining when they aren't where it expects them to be).  You could 
> then chroot into the /fr folder to compile/install the package as normal 
> and then copy the files you want over into the 'real' system after 
> verifying that the install has gone OK and not done anything nasty to 
> the system.
> 
> Does that even make sense?

Check out encap and epkg if you haven't already.





Regards,
@ndy

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