Using makefiles for dependency resolution

[Anonymous Shadow]

Is it a good idea if I want to create a primitive package management
system for my linux distribution with makefiles? Make has dependency
resolution, and I don't want to spend a lot of time porting existing
package managers to my system, or spending even more time writing my
own package manager.

For example:

help:
@echo "Please specify a package name."

bash:
wget -O bash.tgz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3.30.tar.gz
tar -xf bash.tgz
bash-4.3.30/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-minimal-config
make -C bash-4.3.30
sudo make -C bash-4.3.30 install

.. add more packages here

If this would be a good idea, what is the best way to implement
it?

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[Kaz Kylheku]

On 2015-09-09, Anonymous Shadow <rocket....@riseup.net> wrote:
> Make has dependency resolution

Maybe in some parallel reality.

Here, we have to type explicit dependency rules into makefiles, or have tools
generate them.

What make has is out-of-date-target resolution: checking that a target
doesn't exist or is out of date w.r.t some prerequisites and needs to
be updated via execution of its build recipe.

[Martijn Dekker]

In article <msor51$jeq$1...@speranza.aioe.org>,

Anonymous Shadow <rocket....@riseup.net> wrote:

> Is it a good idea if I want to create a primitive package management
> system for my linux distribution with makefiles? Make has dependency
> resolution, and I don't want to spend a lot of time porting existing
> package managers to my system, or spending even more time writing my
> own package manager.

pkgsrc uses Makefiles and is cross-platform, so should work under Linux
as is.

https://www.pkgsrc.org/

HTH,

- M.