Building Slackware Packages

[Toby Fisher]

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.

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