i think ive cought gentoo disease of a couple of my friends, but is there
a program available for slack that downloads sources instead of tgz's and
installs and checks for dependancies?

On Tue 02 Mar 2004 at 19:02 GMT, Matthew Robinson wrote:

> i think ive cought gentoo disease of a couple of my friends, but is there
> a program available for slack that downloads sources instead of tgz's and
> installs and checks for dependancies?
>
swaret

swaret does sources? i thought it only did tgz binaries

On Tue 02 Mar 2004 at 19:30 GMT, Matthew Robinson wrote:

> swaret does sources? i thought it only did tgz binaries
>
swaret --morehelp

thanks

Matthew Robinson wrote:
> i think ive cought gentoo disease of a couple of my friends, but is there
> a program available for slack that downloads sources instead of tgz's and
> installs and checks for dependancies?

there is a port of the gentoo portage system to slack, IIRC it's called
emerde, and there is also the ports system of netbsd which has been made
available for other unix-like systems, one of which is slackware. google
will tell you more.

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In newsan.2004.03.02.19.02.50.188088@microsoftscrap pywebserver.com,
Matthew Robinson <mattyrobinson69@microsoftscrappywebserver.com> rambled:

> i think ive cought gentoo disease of a couple of my friends, but is
> there a program available for slack that downloads sources instead of
> tgz's and installs and checks for dependancies?

Recommendation from another post in this newsgroup.

http://tinyurl.com/yvrx7

Billy

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On 2 Mar 2004 19:47:05 GMT, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ......, and there is also the ports system of netbsd which has been made
> available for other unix-like systems, one of which is slackware. google
> will tell you more.
>

I've been playing with NetBSD 1.6.1 lately and the pkgsrc system is
_really_ nice. It ftps, patches, and compiles packages from source.
Its very organized and maintainable. NetBSD is very minimal by default,
and with the pkgsrc utilities I had bash , emacs, screen, links,
blackbox, ... etc. installed in no time. All of it compiled
from source and managed by pkgsrc. nice nice nice

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On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:17:26 -0600,
paul wisehart <wisehart@runbox.com> wrote:
>
> I've been playing with NetBSD 1.6.1 lately and the pkgsrc system is
> _really_ nice. It ftps, patches, and compiles packages from source.
....
> All of it compiled
> from source and managed by pkgsrc. nice nice nice

It's great to hear an opinion on pkgsrc. I've been meaning to try it out
for ages but wasn't too sure how well it would work. Thanks.


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On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 02:26:22 +0000, Mark Hill wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:17:26 -0600,
> paul wisehart <wisehart@runbox.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've been playing with NetBSD 1.6.1 lately and the pkgsrc system is
>> _really_ nice. It ftps, patches, and compiles packages from source.
> ...
>> All of it compiled
>> from source and managed by pkgsrc. nice nice nice
>
> It's great to hear an opinion on pkgsrc. I've been meaning to try it out
> for ages but wasn't too sure how well it would work. Thanks.

I've got it going on Slack 9.1. I haven't used it very much, since
there's not alot that I need that I can't either compile myself easily, or
grab packages for...I installed pkgsrc more out of curiousity.

But, judging by the little I've used it, it does seem to do exactly what
it claims, and I've seen no problems so far.
One nice thing is that it keeps the programs it installs in a different
location than other packages installed "normally"...You configure that
part when you install pkgsrc. I have mine configured to put software
under /opt/pkgsrc, so the executables go in /opt/pkgsrc/bin../sbin, etc.

One thing I'm curious about is how it handles a dependancy that may be
installed via a Slackware package...For example, if I used it to install
something like Evolution, which requires all kinds of X and Gnome stuff,
will it insist on installing it's own versions, even if I have alot of it
already ? And if so, how will that effect other programs that rely on
those same packages/libs ?
Anyway, I'm not that adventerous with my primary desktop, so a *real* test
of pksrc will have to wait for a test system, sometime later this month.

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