Linked by Michael Reed on Thu 12th Oct 2006 18:00 UTC
This article is a inspired by some of the ideas which seem be constantly floating around my mind whenever I think about or read about operating systems. Surely, every time-served OS-geek carries a mental list of this sort around with them? This is a summary of all of the features which I would like to see in my dream FOSS based Operating System.
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"What does the packaging system for FreeBSD have to do with anything mentioned in the article, or anything I wrote in my comment?"
This is the reference text:
By blixel (1.88) on 2006-10-12 20:27:50 CET {
Look into the --prefix option. If you want to know which files belong to a given program, install it to some temporary location such as ~/tmp_install.
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I just mentioned this packaging system because it is modified by a "make install" command. So, if you want to know wich files belong to a given program, you would only have to ask the package database.
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"Look into the --prefix option. If you want to know which files belong to a given program, install it to some temporary location such as ~/tmp_install."
You should take a look on the packagin system used by FreeBSD. Installed programs (packages) are listed in the package database /var/db/pkg; every package has a directory with package name and version. It contains files thatt tell you about package purpose and description (+COMMENT, +DESCRIPTION), installed files (+CONTENTS).
This is a good way to find out which package a file belongs to.