[ale] Slackware Packaging

Bob Toxen bob at verysecurelinux.com
Fri Nov 21 18:03:07 EST 2003


There are user mailing lists at http://www.slackware.com that probably
could help you out.  I've not done this myself.

Bob

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 05:05:02PM -0500, attriel wrote:
> So ...

> I'm working on building a slackware package for mysql that fits my
> installation structure/locations.

> I've done the compile, and I know I do a 'makepkg' to finish it

> I'm just not sure what I do in-between, since 'makepkg' says it'll take
> "the current directory (structure) and tar it for the package", meaning I
> obviously can't just go and install the compile, b/c then there'll be all
> the OTHER junk thats not rightfully part of mysql :o

> do I just somehow do a make and force it into another dir (by editing the
> makefile, at the minimum) ?  or has anyone else done this before and
> there's some special "makepkgfrommake" where it'll call the make -n and
> capture the data to copy the files and do it itself somehow?

> I'm guessing the former, but figure I'm going to be doing this with a
> bunch of things in the next few weeks as I build a custom install-cd, so
> might as well see if there's a tool I'm missing ;)

> --attriel



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