On Wednesday 22 July 2009 07:19:49 Mikhail Kolesnik wrote:
Hello, Hazel.
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:33:52 +0100
Hazel Russman <hazel_russman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
In Gentoo, one normally keeps source tarballs because they are frequently re-used, either for patch updates or for rebuilding packages against upgraded libraries. Is this also the case in Crux? And do the compiled .pkg.tar.gz files need to be kept after the package has been installed?
You can easily adjust a few lines in pkgmk.conf(5) to put packages and/or tarballs to the temporary directory, for example. And there is no need to keep packages unless you want to dive into some specific version to search for something. The pkg-backup[1][2] might be a very handy tool.
[1] http://git.die.net.au/crux/tools/pkg-backup [2] http://crux.nu/Wiki/PackageBackups
Keeping packages can also be useful if you want to run a package repository for a number of crux machines.