[Slapt-get-devel] A few ideas on source package handling.

Luke Yelavich luke at audioslack.com
Tue Nov 11 18:30:32 EST 2003


At 10:38 AM 12/11/2003, Jason Woodward wrote:
>I'm cc'ing  spswg at linuxpackages.net, the Slackware Package Standards 
>Working Group mailing list
>that Jim setup.

Where do I subscribe to that list?

>I think the first order of business for your source package idea is to 
>create a tool such as
>installpkg for your source packages.  That way tools such as slapt-get can 
>simply detect its a
>source package, and call the appropriate native tool.

So you don't think it should be up to Slapt-get to detect the -src in the 
name, and use another tool rather than installpkg to install it?

Luke
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AudioSlack Founder and head package maintainer
Audio software packaged for the Slackware Linux Distribution
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luke at audioslack.com





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