Aiming for 7.0

[Gordon Schumacher]

Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> * DESTDIR style PM support? (To me, this is the easiest way of offering 
> a default pseudo-style PM support. We don't actually tell the users how 
> to package up the binaries, track dependencies or track what is 
> installed, but we do show whatever DESTDIR-compatible commands exist for 
> the package so that LFS can be that much more compatible with a wide 
> range of PM offerings).
>   

This actually dovetails very nicely with the work I've been doing for
the Linux-Live-flavoured LFS.  In order to turn the built packages into
SquashFS modules, I found that I was basically doing everything
necessary to implement this exact basis of package management.

So what I did in my work was implement a new <sect2 role="binpackage">
(which in my opinion should be able to be switched on and off via
profiling), which does the fakeroot install.  The command to actually
turn that into a SquashFS module is wrapped in a profiling switch
specific to Linux-Live.  So in an ideal universe, it could look
something like this:

<sect2 role="installation">...</sect2>

<sect2 role="binpackage">
   <title>Binary Package for Foo</title>

  <para>Perform the fakeroot install:</para>

<screen><userinput>make DESTDIR=$PKGTEMP install</userinput></screen>

  <para pkgtype="linuxlive">Build the Squashfs filesystem:</para>

<screen pkgtype="linuxlive"><userinput>mksquashfs $PKGTEMP
../foo-&foo-version;.$SQEXT $SQOPTS</userinput></screen>

  <para pkgtype="tarball">Build the package tarball:</para>

<screen pkgtype="tarball"><userinput>tar -C $PKGTEMP -cjf
../foo-&foo-version;-bin.tar.bz2 *</userinput></screen>

</sect2>


Does this look reasonable?