deb package management on lfs

r£vilo · 09-29-2006, 12:50 PM

I was wondwering has anyone had mcu h success with a debian package managment systom on lfs. Also once I have it install can I run dpkg and apt-get or do I have to use alien to to convert to .tgz then install.

Thanks,
r£vilo

Axalon · 09-30-2006, 07:52 AM

If you install dpkg + apt, you can use dpkg and apt-get on your system. However, this doesn't guarantee compatibility with existing debian packages, since they like to group things in their own way (like the KDE packages) and that the .debs may be compiled for a different set of libraries. I believe there's an LFS hint for installing dpkg.

PS: If you want to use a package manager, I'd HIGHLY recommend pacman (http://www.archlinux.org/pacman), just for the fact that its easier to build packages for it. I personally use it, and like it a bunch.

r£vilo · 09-30-2006, 02:06 PM

Thanks I was considering using pacman or making my own package managent but then again I love the debian package management.

At what point did you install pacman?

krigav · 10-06-2006, 06:52 PM

Another nice package manager for LFS is paco:

link will follow...

krigav · 10-06-2006, 06:53 PM

... I need to make my third replay to be able to post URLs...

krigav · 10-06-2006, 06:55 PM

Ok! heres the link:

http://paco.sourceforge.net/

You should install your package manager in the tools phase before you chroot into the new tools environment.