Poll about package management

[Reece Dunn]

Here are my answers for my current (and planned future) use of LFS:

On 03/03/2008, Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com> wrote:
>  [ ] I am an editor of LFS or one of the related projects
>  [X] I use LFS as my primary Linux system
>  [X] I use LFS on more than one PC (including virtual machines)
>  [X] I deviate a lot from LFS (not counting package updates as deviations)
>  [X] I deviate a lot from BLFS (not counting package updates as deviations)
>
>  I use the following package management technique:
>  ( ) It's all in my head!
>  (X) I trust the lists of files in the book
>  (X) I rebuild everything every three months or less, so there is no
>  need to manage anything!
>  ( ) Installation script tracing with installwatch or checkinstall
>  ( ) Installation script tracing with some other tool
>  ( ) Timestamp-based "find" operation
>  (X) User-based <-- bash scripts like DIY-Linux
>  ( ) RPM
>  ( ) DPKG
>  ( ) Simple binary tarballs produced with DESTDIR
>  ( ) Other DESTDIR-based method of producing binary packages
>  ( ) Other
>
>  I use the following features provided by a package manager:
>  [ ] Knowing where each file comes from
>  [ ] Clean uninstallation of a package
>  [ ] Removal of obsolete files when upgrading to a new version
>  [ ] Ability to upgrade toolchain components (most notably, glibc) painlessly
>  [ ] Ability to revert mistakes easily and quickly by installing an old
>  binary package
>  [ ] Ability to compile once, deploy on many macines
>  [X] Scripting the build
A primary aim for me is to use and manage downloaded sources, not
downloading them every time I rebuild LFS.

A secondary aim is to use git sources where available for associated packages.

>  I will ignore the future LFS advice on package management if it
>  [X] Can't be applied on a busy machine where many files are
>  accessed/modified everyy minute
>  [ ] Can't be used to transfer packages to another machine
>  [X] Interferes with config.site files described in DIY-linux
>  [X] Will clobber configuration files wen upgrading package versions
>  [X] Doesn't explain how to package software beyond BLFS
>  [ ] Requires learning another language/syntax besides bash shell syntax
>  [ ] Exists at all

- Reece