From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 20 10:19:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EE6C37B42C for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 10:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 70056 invoked by uid 100); 20 May 2001 17:19:48 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15111.64692.769827.128555@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 12:19:48 -0500 To: Bzdik BSD Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports and Packages Mixture In-Reply-To: <8539783@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bzdik BSD types: > --- Mike Meyer wrote: > > We've got "something like" apt. If there are some features from it > > that you'd like, you need to provide more details. > can I upgrade the whole build/RELEASE with the pkg_? If by that you mean the base system, the answer is no, because the base system isn't released in the form of packages. This is considered a deficiency, and is being worked on as part of the libh project. > Can it be simply crontabbed like: > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade ? Actually, it can, and people do it. You don't use the package tools on the base system, though. Because of the stronger ties between the kernel and userland in BSD, it's not as safe - at least, not unless you rebuild and reinstall the kernel as well. > pkg_ gives one more control and shouldn't be deprecated, but the apt > way is much more efficient for an admin IMO. Why? What feature does apt have that the package system is missing, other than inclusion of the base system? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message