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On Thursday 02 June 2005 17:16, Chakkaradeep C C wrote: |
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> A Package Manager must keep all the packages in it's database regardless if |
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> it was installed by the package manager or not. But i dont think this has |
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> been implemented yet. |
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Name one package manager that does this. |
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> In portage we have the option of making binaries using "quickpkg" command, |
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> this is done after installing and it searches it's database (hope so am |
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> correct) for the files which depends on the package and creates a "tar.bz2" |
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> file. |
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It takes a list of files that was generated after compiling a package, finds |
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them on the filesystem and puts them into the .tbz2 format. |
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> now why cant we apply this technique to track whether the package is |
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> already installed in our system not through portage and inject into |
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> the database??........ |
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Where to get this list of files from??........ |
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