Re: [tlug] Good binary distribution

[Tim Hurman <kano-tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 05:16:07PM +0200, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> And Thus Spake Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com> (on Wed, 8 Oct 2003
> 07:26:13 -0700 (PDT)):
> 
> > I didn't realize that Slack had a package management system. It
> > has been years since I ran it. I thought it was just tarballs.
> 
> It's pretty rudimentary and the packages themselves are just .tgz files but
> they're built to include shell scripts to move the binaries in the .tgz to
> the appropriate directories and log the actions under /var/log/packages/
> 
> Quite neat if you use that kind of thing - it's a bit like RPM but without
> all the bloat and drawbacks of that particular white elephant.

in fact very useful, I have a slack based dist that I created for secure
linux, that is only 10MB big (inclusing kernel). Great for installing on a
comactflash and by default uses r/o filesystems and all sorts of other
nice things. It installs in unser 1 minute and is net-installable.

Tim.