On Tue, 7 May 2002, Steve Holmes wrote: > Has anyone on the list built their own slackware packages? > Conceptually, I understand what to do but am hung up on the directory > structure just a bit. Everything is based on a base "/" directory but > when building the package, I don't want to drop the components into > the actual working environment just yet. If anyone has indeed done > this, could you give me the steps you took to do it? I haven't done this, but most of the Slackware package manipulation tools, such as installpkg, take a -root option. It stands to reason that you should be able to use this to test your packagbes in some temp directory somewhere. Sorry I can't be of more help. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
