Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[steve_s]

I've been over this in my mind for a while now and can't find the best answer, so I'm coming to the forum for opinions.

After a recent Gentoo install I did I fell in love with running emerge and have packages installed from source.

So, the question is this: what is the best from source package installation method (like emerge) that is available to Puppy?

I have no problem doing the work if I need to create something, but I am loathe to do the work if someone else has already done it.

I know that Slackware has something like emerge, as does Arch linux.

I know many of the big dogs in the Puppy forum have addressed this in some way: Big_Bass has slaxer, technosaurus has a host of scripts that handle packages, and I've heard there is an Arch puppy version out there (sorry that I couldn't find that version).

So, if it has already been done, what is the best/closest thing to what I'm looking for?

If it HASN'T been done, I've already begun my research on Woof, but I know there isn't a Gentoo option there (yet?). What direction should I go with that (if that is the direction I need to go)?

Opinions?

[Lobster]

There was an effort to combine Gentoo and Puppy
some years ago - with the developer saying they would post something once it worked reasonably

This might be it
http://simplux.org/

[amigo]

src2pkg -I URL
downloads, configures, compiles, packages and installs the package.One recipe per package(where recipe is even needed)

[steve_s]

[steve_s]

First tests: just installed two different packages, nano (text editor) and graveman (small cd burning software) using src2pkg and they installed very easily.

Graveman had issues with not having certain directories made, I just made them and reran src2pkg and it worked fine.

Muchas gracias, amigo, very well done.

Next step is to do a minimalist remaster and then install most of what I need from src2pkg just to see how it goes. Thanks again and I'll post back...