[Techtalk] finding libs not installed from packages

[Meredydd]

Depends whether you still have the sources lying about. If so, I'd 
recommend using checkinstall (very good utility, and, of course, a MUST 
for anyone who uses Slackware - best to use it to start with when you 
install anything from source) to make the fake packages. If you don't 
have the sources lying about, then I don't think there's any way of 
telling, with the exception of checking whether each file is accounted 
for by the package manager (along the lines of Debian's "cruft" 
utility) and then creating packages manually.

Alternatively, if you've used ./configure defaults, then you can always 
try seeing what's in /usr/local, and using that to tell whether it's 
packaged or not, but that's roughly equivalent to the cruft method.

Meredydd

On Sunday 16 November 2003 22:06, Carla Schroder wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out a way to search a system for libs installed
> from sources. The idea is to clean up a mixed system-one with both
> package-built and source-built programs. And use various tricky hacks
> to insert the source-built libs into the package database, either RPM
> or .deb.
>
> The latter part is easy, simply build fake packages. But I'm stuck on
> finding the source-built libs in the first place. I don't need a
> detailed howto, but some pointers as to what tools to use would be
> luverly.  :)