November 8th, 2006 by patrys
This time you can see how easy it is to build your own packages on PLD Linux. While PLD is a binary rpm distribution, you can use the builder script to build new packages just like you use emerge on Gentoo.
Unfortunately the quality on this clip is somewhat low so keep your eyes peeled not to miss a single detail.
Tips
- Use
builder --init-rpm-dir once to prepare your home directory for the package building goodness
- Use
builder -bb to build binary rpm packages you can install later
poldek -n home will use the locally available packages instead of the ones that come from the distribution- Never use your root account for building packages
Download and watch
Preparing the package building environment on PLD Linux (1MB)
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November 7th, 2006 by patrys
To get things started, here is the first screencast - playing around with poldek.
poldek is the program responsible for package management in PLD Linux. While it internally makes use of rpm it also has a big set of unique features and offers an interactive shell as opposed to most similar command line tools.
Things shown in the screencast
- Updating the repository cache
- Starting the interactive shell
- Switching between repositories and the locally installed packages
- Searching for packages using their names, description fields, searching for particular files and provided capabilities
- Reading package descriptions
- Upgrading packages
- The builtin
grep command
- Launching external command using the exclamation mark prefix
Download and watch:
Fun with poldek (3.2MB)
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